Simpson has previously exhibited photographs of black women accompanied by bits of cryptic text.

There have been examinations of the detective as skilled reader of cryptic texts and of the detective novel as a bourgeois morality tale.

Her art mixes text and image in ways not unlike the Book of the Dead, and her images are almost hieroglyphic: attenuated, stylized, sometimes cryptic.

The cryptic text alluded to primordial battles between the greater powers and weird beings more mighty even than Ao.

Surrounding the figures are disembodied limbs performing magical actions - some wield scissors, others sprout segments of cryptic text made of glittery twine.

Yrjänä himself has said: "I've never tried to write cryptic text, but it seems I just think in a complicated manner."

Thanks in large part to The Comment, interpretation of the often cryptic text is generally considered by Thelemites a matter for the individual reader.

A difficult and often cryptic text, it has only recently been published.

"Or like a full moon mating with the sun," her uncle said, bringing up the stanza from the cryptic text.

And the cryptic text?