Caress of the Sphinx Bookmark gift card Made with 11/0 seed beads

Made with 11/0 seed beads

This hopeful twist on the classic game of War challenges players to outdo each other with increasingly generous acts of kindness

- Great for fans of the One Line A Day series

will enable them to be designers of a better world

a forest in the Congo

Caress of the Sphinx Bookmark gift card Made with 11/0 seed beadsThe Caress of the Sphinx by Fernand Khnopff depicts Oedipus meeting the Sphinx. Oedipus must answer the Sphinx's riddle correctly to pass. Failure means his death. The puzzle was: "What walks on four feet in the morning, two in the afternoon, and three at night?". Oedipus answered: "Man: as an infant, he crawls on all fours; as an adult, he walks on two legs and; in old age, he uses a walking stick." Finish: Solid brass, electro plated with gold