RITE AWAITS MYTH
Greg Pliska, Chris Morse
Each clue indicates a specific person, real or fictional. The title refers phonetically to the Rider-Waite-Smith tarot deck. Feste, in the clue text, is The Fool. The other 21 cards are associated with the answers to the 21 clues.
Ordering the answer people by associated card number (using the Rider-Waite-Smith numbering) and taking the Nth letter of the clue (where N = the card number) gives the phrase ANSWER IS SPIRIT WRITING.
SPIRIT WRITING is the answer to this puzzle.
letter |
number |
card |
person |
Clue |
A |
1 |
magician |
Penn
Gillette |
Actor who played a T.V. announcer
in Toy Story |
N |
2 |
high
priestess |
Rosalyn
Tureck |
An
Introduction to the Performance of Bach author |
S |
3 |
empress |
Catherine
the Great |
Russian
woman known for her libido and secret marriage to Potemkin |
W |
4 |
emperor |
Emperor
Norton |
His writ
of July 16, 1860, dissolved the United States of America |
E |
5 |
hierophant |
Celeus |
While
searching for her daughter, Demeter was welcomed by this King and his wife
Metanaira |
R |
6 |
lovers |
Bonnie
and Clyde |
This criminal
pair was gunned down on May 23, 1934 |
I |
7 |
chariot |
Judah
Ben-Hur |
After his
friend Messala betrayed him, he became a slave |
S |
8 |
strength |
Hercules |
Alcmene's
child who is plagued constantly by his stepmother |
S |
9 |
hermit |
Septimus
Hodge |
Stoppard's
play Arcadia includes this character as a tutor |
P |
10 |
wheel of
fortune |
Pat Sajak |
He was a
staple of daytime television long before he had a late-night talk show
for 18 months on CBS |
I |
11 |
justice |
John
Ashcroft |
He lost
his Missouri senate race to a dead man in 2000 |
R |
12 |
hanged
man |
Billy
Bailey |
Killer of
Clara and Gilbert Lambertson |
I |
13 |
death |
Dr. Jack
Kevorkian |
"Patients"
of this doctor included Thomas Youk and Janet Adkins |
T |
14 |
temperance |
Carrie
Nation |
She used
hatchets and hymns to do divine work |
W |
15 |
devil |
Evel
Knievel |
The
quarter-mile-wide Snake River Canyon was his Rubicon in September of
1974 |
R |
16 |
tower |
Gustave
Eiffel |
The
Statue of Liberty's armature was designed by this French engineer |
I |
17 |
star |
Pamela
Anderson |
This Baywatch
and V.I.P. actress released her first novel in 2004 |
T |
18 |
moon |
Neil
Armstrong |
He's the
second oldest member of the Apollo 11 crew |
I |
19 |
sun |
George
Hamilton |
His son
Ashley had a brief marriage to Shannen Doherty |
N |
20 |
judgement |
King
Solomon |
King of
Israel and second son of David and Bathsheba |
G |
21 |
world |
Phileas
Fogg |
Character
played by Coogan and Niven in the movies |