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Riddle & Mystery - Questions with answers, questions without answers

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Parabola's Summer 2000 Issue: Riddle & Mystery If you speak my name, You destroy me. Who am I? Cover:"Silence" Oil painting by Odilon Redon, 1910-1911 Museum of Modern Art, New York. In this issue:
  • "One and One Make One" by Christian Wertenbaker - The puzzle of looking inward and outward
  • "Enigma, Paradox, Parable" by David and Sharon Hoffman - Western traditions of teaching through riddles
  • "The Mystery of the Headless Goddess" by Miranda Shaw - Tantric symbol of spiritual rebirth
  • "Riddles in the Dark" by J. R. R. Tolkien - A deadly contest beneath the mountains
  • "Squaring the Circle" by Eric LaVigne - Toward a solution of the ancient problem
  • "Angels and Fools" by Cecil Collins - A gallery of paintings and meditations
  • "The Great Magician" by René Daumal - A cryptic story from the author of Mount Analogue
  • "Science, Observation, and Mystery" by Luke Keller - When spirit meets the scientific method
  • "Word Alchemy" by Paul Sorrell - The use of riddles in Anglo-Saxon culture
  • "A Prayer to My Gritty God" by BK Loren - Invoking the spirit of the Fool
  • "Singing the World" - An Interview with Heather Valencia
  • "Empty-handed I Go" by D. T. Suzuki - Comments on the Zen koan
  • "Hamlet's Mission" - An Interview with Andrei Serban
Epicycles - Traditional stories from around the world
  • "The Concealed Deer" / Chinese
  • "A Palace of Bird Beaks" / Jewish - retold by Barbara Rush and Howard Schwartz
  • "Nothingness" / Hindu - retold by Rama Devagupta
  • "Inktomi and the Best Thing" / Sioux - retold by Aaron Link
  • "Two Cows" / Persian
  • "The Mule and the Villagers" / Korean





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