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vice is then, and only then, un-circled by the gifts of light: the riddles and the heavenly coat, the mask and the spiritual sword.
The circle of riddles belongs to King Trivikramasena and Vetala. Every riddle-story resonates with a coming into being, existing and passing away: the telling of the story (its coming into being), the posing of the riddle (its existence), and the solution, (its passing away). Vetala disappears and goes back to its place of origin, the Sisso tree, after each of the 24 cycles are fulfilled. These coming into being, existing and passing away symbolize the cycle of life, death and resurrection. To live, to die and to resurrect is to be under the spell of King Trivikramasena and Vetala’s eternal and infinite circle. That which can’t be solved, the unsolvable riddle, is what releases King Trivikramasena to the next stage of his quest where Vetala reveals rather than conceals, where Vetala foretells rather than tests, where Vetala asks for help to ensure his own salvation and that of his soul mate. While going in riddle circles, both are immune to penuries and the magician’s spell for theirs is the circle of the City of Flowers, of careful mastery where all senses are awoken, where nothing sleeps. Yet the mystery of the unsolvable riddle is what takes them out of their vigilant circle into that darkness and twilight of Ksantisila’s circle.
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