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Riddle: palace consisting of 8760 stones; twelve trees, thirty branches, each with black and white cluster of grapes. Year, months, days, hours.

Tests. · Tests of cleverness. · Riddles. · Metaphorical riddles. · view the constellation · filed as H721.4

Cited in the index
  • general *Chauvin VI 40 No. 207.
Within the index

Filed under Riddle of the year.

Filed beside it
Riddle: tree with twelve branches, each with thirty leaves, black and white. Year, month, days and nights Riddle: tree with leaves white on one side and black on other. Year made up of nights and days Riddle: twelve cypresses with thirty boughs each. Years and months
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Riddle of the day and night. (Cf. H721.1, H721.2, H721.4.)

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