Try this riddle out.

[look_out_below]

And im back to try and add some more, probably incorrect things, to what has already been put down.

This could be about enslavement. Narrator starts off looking at the people in sackcloth as another race; slaves were often viewed by their masters as being a completely different race then them. By the end of the poem the narrator is now calling someone else Master implying he is enslaved. The poem inbetween these two parts is about the narrator being confronted, defeated, captured and inslaved by an enemy.
The people bowing to earth also reinforce the idea of slavery because it sounds like they are being bent over by a heavy weight. Like something they would have to carry or pull if inslaved.

I hope i am right in what i have thought so far.

[Endless]

What am I trying to figure out?

I agree.

Each three line block is from a different Canto from Dante's Purgatory and Inferno, and it's not even following the right order.
It's going:
Purgatory XIII (The Second Circle: The Envious. Sapia of Siena)
Purgatory XVIII (Virgil further discourses of Love and Free Will. The Abbot of San Zeno)
Purgatory XIX (Dante's Dream of the Siren. The Fifth Circle: The Avaricious and Prodigal. Pope Adrian V)
Purgatory XXIV (Buonagiunta da Lucca. Pope Martin IV, and others. Inquiry into the State of Poetry)
Inferno 7 (4th Circle of Hell)
Inferno 5 (2nd Circle of Hell)
Purgatory X (The Needle's Eye. The First Circle: The Proud. The Sculptures on the Wall)

[Despotus]

Very good Endless. You seem to be on the right track there. I was going to add that it also seems to me like perhaps The Son and The Father (He Who Is Called I Am) are looking down from Heaven at the miserable folk down here. The Angels in particular at one point held great disdain for Mankind. I am probably not nearly as close as you are here, but thought I should throw in some more food for thought. I feel pity for anyone here who may not be somewhat familiar with Judeo/Christian mythology and Dante's writings about the Afterlife.

How about a specific question as to what we're supposed to identify in this riddle, eh Tsukasa? Is it the narrator, the Master, the People, all of the above, the whole riddle?

[Peegee]

It's definitely a diety or a holy being who is saying this. My first thoughts are that of God (not likely), the Devil (very unlikely), or Angels.

But only because I do not intuitively think of the Holy Trinity as One (wow I had to force myself to capitalise all of that).

And yeah, I can't determine what the riddle is asking of us either

[Avathar]

Is it something you can eat?

[bipper]

What am I trying to figure out?

I agree.

Each three line block is from a different Canto from Dante's Purgatory and Inferno, and it's not even following the right order.
It's going:
Purgatory XIII (The Second Circle: The Envious. Sapia of Siena)
Purgatory XVIII (Virgil further discourses of Love and Free Will. The Abbot of San Zeno)
Purgatory XIX (Dante's Dream of the Siren. The Fifth Circle: The Avaricious and Prodigal. Pope Adrian V)
Purgatory XXIV (Buonagiunta da Lucca. Pope Martin IV, and others. Inquiry into the State of Poetry)
Inferno 7 (4th Circle of Hell)
Inferno 5 (2nd Circle of Hell)
Purgatory X (The Needle's Eye. The First Circle: The Proud. The Sculptures on the Wall)

I completley agree, as the imagry and such is fairly vivid and less obscured, as riddles often are. Are we trying to figure out what the people are, where they are, who the master is? The objective is not clearly stated, it is implied.

Also, the gemeral flow seems inconsistant and the punctuation is lapse (which makes it hard to understand the connotation of the verses). This leads me to belive these may have been intentional, and
Endless is right, or damn close.

Knowing you, I was going the guess MMORPG before I even read it

Bipper

[Markus. D]

Take a long shot guess, but Pandora's box.. Pandora, something around there. Sending the sins down to earth?

Or angels who have sinned and fallen from grace because they were tempted..

so far Avarice-ness is the closest one.

extremely close....


she actually said a part of the answer.

Purgatory XIII (The Second Circle: The Envious. Sapia of Siena)
Purgatory XVIII (Virgil further discourses of Love and Free Will. The Abbot of San Zeno)
Purgatory XIX (Dante's Dream of the Siren. The Fifth Circle: The Avaricious and Prodigal. Pope Adrian V)
Purgatory XXIV (Buonagiunta da Lucca. Pope Martin IV, and others. Inquiry into the State of Poetry)
Inferno 7 (4th Circle of Hell)
Inferno 5 (2nd Circle of Hell)
Purgatory X (The Needle's Eye. The First Circle: The Proud. The Sculptures on the Wall)

Endless subliminally said a part of the answer (by this I mean, avarice said a part, and Endless's post sort of represents the other part of the answer).

your almost there folks, checking back tomorow morning.

edit: in fact, I have just noticed that when I quoted Endless, that I gave another clue.

[Levian]

Speaking of riddles. Whatever happened to Del Snizz' christmas riddle? Did we find christmas or what?

[Gh["]sT]

going on a wild guess but is it a green box xD

[bipper]

ARe you simply saying they are the damned?

Speaking of riddles. Whatever happened to Del Snizz' christmas riddle? Did we find christmas or what?

I was wondering the same, IT has been chewing at the back of my mind and festering. I was going to solve it, but I took a Hiatas as I frantically got ready for the season.

Bipper

[Markus. D]

getting there, sort of around that.

I am looking for 2 words. *gives away another*

[bipper]

Lost Souls? Satan's Army? Pandora's Bowl? Flying Mullet's Tea set? (damn... thats four words.)

[Despotus]

or condemned souls? The wicked? Hell's Angels? Fried Chickens?

[Dignified Pauper]

Adam's fall in the Garden of Eden? Or Lucifer's Fall casting out from God (along with his other angels) because of his avarice for power?

[Markus. D]

*nopes all of them*

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I might as well say the answer, cause it will sound lame if I say it later....