| Bad Blood | |
| Season Two, Episode 14 | |
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| Air date | March 7, 2007 |
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Summary[]
Odie, upset from Neil's teasing, leaves town- only to be trapped by an angry Sphinx, who had trapped an entire town unless her riddle is solved.
Traditionally, the Sphinx's riddle was:
"What walks on four feet in the morning, two at noon and three at night?"
The answer was man, as a toddler crawls on its hands and feet during the beginning, or morning of their life, two feet in the middle, and they lean on a cane during the end of their life.
Her riddle in Class of the Titans was:
"More precious than gold,
but can not be bought.
It can never be sold,
but it's earned if it's sought.
Though it be broken
it can still be mended.
At birth it can't start
nor by death is it ended."
Notes[]
- Neil catfished Odie.
- One of the town members had red hair and resembled Archie Andrews from the comics.
- Josephine X was a cleaver play on her real name Sphinx. As in joSPHIN X
Mythology[]
A unique demon of destruction and bad luck. She is either the daughter of Orthrus and Chimera, or a daughter of Echidna and Typhon. All of these are chthonic figures from the earliest of Greek Myths, before the Olympians ruled the Greek pantheon. The Sphinx is called Phix.
It was said in late lore that Hera or Ares sent the Sphinx from her homeland Aethiopian to guarded the entrance to the Greek city of Thebes, asking a riddle to travellers to allow them passage. "Which creature has one voice and yet becomes four-footed and two-footed and three-footed?" She strangled and devoured anyone who could not answer. Oedipus solved the riddle by answering: "Man—who crawls on all fours as a baby, then walks on two feet as an adult, and then uses a walking stick in old age". By some accounts, there was a second riddle: "There are two sisters: one gives birth to the other and she, in turn, gives birth to the first. Who are the two sisters?" The answer is "day and night".
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