Riddle is something mysterious and inexplicable, entailing and charming - if it is natural or social phenomenon;experience accumulated wisdom of centuries - if it is folklore.
The biggest secret
According to the dictionary, a mystery - it is allegorical, metaphorical statement containing a description of one object by another, similar to him.On the basis of similar characteristics or properties of the people and must guess what, in fact, is at stake.Such verbal formulas are so fond of kids!With this all clear.But quite often the word mystery has nothing to folk art.By resorting to this concept in order to emphasize the mystery, the incomprehensibility of a phenomenon.What examples can be magic in a figurative sense?Well, at least the following: "There must be a woman some mystery ...".It seems that there is no need to explain the meaning of this well-known phrase.The highlight in the fair sex - these are the qualities that make it unpredictable and at the same time attractive to men."Flexibility" ladies' consciousness, the ability to find a compromise in the situation to the brink of survival, as well as the desire to maintain close loved one - this is what creates the notorious women's puzzle.
Secrets and riddles of nature
What is the mystery?It may be a miracle of nature, such as the northern lights.When -So bright flashes in the sky, painted in different colors, caused mystical horror and delight at the same time the forces of nature, their power and variety.However, unexplained phenomena in nature, there are fewer, because science seeks to explain the world.Sometimes it succeeds, sometimes - not very.And while pundits sigh, shrug their shoulders and say, "This is a mystery to science!" Well, for example.
There are several versions of the origin of life on Earth, the extinction of mammoths, giant lizards that once inhabited our planet and were masters at it.The emergence of human - being physically weak and therefore useless, but eventually transform the world and actually subjugate it - has become one of the major mysteries for scientists.There were theories of Darwin and Marx.
But theories are subject to regular review due to the fact that they are not confirmed by practice.For example, none of the monkey millions of years did not become a man for the second time.But on the contrary - please (figuratively, of course).Moreover, it turned out that the closest "Homo sapiens" genotype animal - pig.As for Marx, is ... theory of communist society collapsed with the collapse of the Soviet Union.
why the majority of the vagaries of nature can not be understood until the end.Consequently, the meaning of the puzzle can be construed thus: it is a mystery, which eventually is able to understand the people.
Mysteries of History and religion
paradoxes of history and help explain what a mystery.
most popular secret from the end of the XIX century is the location of Atlantis - the fabulous country of abundance, whose inhabitants were incredibly rich, so much so that even at home they were built of gold and silver.The first mention of it relates to the IV century BC.e.("Dialogues" of Plato).Since then, people are looking for the sunken island, which could have once existed ancient civilization.
supposedly Atlantis was located in the Aegean Sea near Crete.In the northern part of the island preserved ancient structures of the Minoan culture Read bulls, as stated in the description of Plato.Perhaps the descendants of the great citizens of Atlantis who escaped during the disaster, were settled in the area.
Or part of Atlantis was Troy, is also considered a myth, is not a German scientist Schliemann excavated in Turkey.Already in the XX century, scientists have found in the area of Bermuda mysterious structure of tightly fitted to each other, the same height and smoothly polished stones, laid out in the form of a fragment of the letter G. There was a version that is the road that went down with the island.
truth very close
So what is the mystery?This phenomenon, which is not able to explain the most talented researchers.Secrets of work with which modern science associated with knowledge of the human soul.Faith in the gods always helped people to survive in the toughest conditions.Faith makes a person virtually invulnerable.Yoga walk on hot coals.Shamans, introducing themselves into a trance, up to a minute to predict events.The saints are raised, to instruct students on the right path.
As opposed to science or miracles, shows the church to explain the origin of the Holy Fire, it can not.He descends from heaven on Easter in the church of the Holy Sepulchre in the place where Christ was supposedly buried.Each year, the Church Fathers suspected of fraud, and belongs to the Patriarch and a representative of the Armenian-Gregorian Church are subjected to thorough examination.The area around the Holy Sepulcher carefully protected - both before and during the descent of the Holy Fire ceremony.But no deception has so far failed to detect.In the midst of prayer on the stone bed of Christ appear blue lights on which the Patriarch lights the torch and carries it to the world.Holy Fire - a divine miracle and one of the mysteries of science.
Riddle of the Sphinx in Greek mythology the winged monster called the Sphinx, to bar the way pilgrims, traveling to Thebes.It asked them questions, and if no response is received, the travelers waiting for a terrible death.Many must have heard a similar expression - the riddle of the Sphinx.Meaning it is very simple - a tricky task, which can cope with only a clever.By the way, according to legend, on a clever question answered only Oedipus and the monster could not stand the frustration, committed suicide.Now even children are well aware of this otgadku ("Who walks on 4 legs in the morning, in the afternoon - at 2 in the evening - at 3?").Of course, man!
giant stone statue of a lion with a human face is for many centuries in Giza, near the pyramids.It built the Sphinx probably in the era of the Fourth Dynasty of the Old Kingdom pharaohs.The length of the sculpture 73 meters, height of about 20 meters.Legs and torso made of calcareous rocks, and the head - from a single stone.
There is speculation that he carved out of the rock, which had previously served as a quarry.Clearly, nature has tried to place it so that once a year the shadow of the Sphinx in the upper point coincides with the top of the main pyramid at sunrise.
interesting sculptures by the fact that it bears a resemblance to the face of the pharaoh Khafre, opposite the pyramid tomb is located.The entire complex, along with the Sphinx is a character that holds the message is not solved by science.Why giant holds in paws a stone church?Why Thutmose IV unearthed from the sands of this giant in the era of the New Kingdom and prospered around the area?Is it true that the Sphinx for it helped him to become the ruler of Egypt?Riddle!
Smart Games
As mentioned above, the children just love to think and solve puzzles.It's a great way to be interesting and useful to spend time.And it's nice to confound parents some "difficult-preslozhnym" question!The value of puzzles for children is huge!First of all they develop logically, learn to think outside the box.In addition, folklore contains the accumulated social experience long centuries.They reveal the sense of simple things, forcing yourself to think about their content.That is what a mystery!
