In classic mythology, there is the story of the Sphinx, a monster with the body of a lion and the upper part of a woman. The Sphinx lay crouched on the top of a rock along the highroad to the city of Thebes, and stopped all travellers passing by, proposing to them a riddle. Those who failed to answer the riddle correctly were killed. This is the riddle the Sphinx asked the travellers: “What animal walks on four legs in the morning, two legs during the day, and three legs in the evening?”

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This is part of the story of Oedipus, who replied to the Sphinx, “Man,who in childhood creeps on hands and knees, in manhood walks erect,and in old age with the aid of a staff” Morning day and night are representative of the stages of life. The Sphinx was so mortified at the solving of her riddle that she cast herself down from the rock and perished.

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