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Five hundred begins it, five hundred ends it. Five in the middle is seen. First of all figures, the first of all letters. Take up their stations between. Join all together, and then you will bring before you the name of an eminent king.
A precious fluid, thicker than water.
I march before armies, a thousand salute me. My fall can bring victory, but no one would shoot me. The wind is my lover, one-Βlegged am I. Name me and see me at home in the sky.
Round like a dishpan and smaller than a bathtub. But the ocean can't fill it. What is it?
You eat something you neither plant nor plow. It is the son of water, but if water touches it, it dies.
What is yellow, looks like the moon and has seeds?