A child crawing on all fours with a square on his forehead, a mature man with a semicircle on his forehead, and an old bearded man with a stick with a triangle on his forehead, are in the foreground. Behind this the myth of Oedipus and the sphynx is enacted out in four scenes. Oedipus meets the sphynx represented as a being with a womanÕs body and a snakes tail. He meets his mother the Queen and kills his Father the King.