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  • A forest ranger, Will Ferrell,along with his two children, quite by accident, stumble into a myste...

    ‘Land of the Lost’ Picture 2010

  • A forest ranger, Will Ferrell,along with his two children, quite by accident, stumble into a myste...

    ‘Land of the Lost’ Picture 2009

  • A forest ranger, Will Ferrell,along with his two children, quite by accident, stumble into a myste...

    ‘Land of the Lost’ Picture 2009

  • A forest ranger, Will Ferrell,along with his two children, quite by accident, stumble into a myste...

    ‘Land of the Lost’ Picture 2009

  • A forest ranger, Will Ferrell,along with his two children, quite by accident, stumble into a myste...

    ‘Land of the Lost’ Picture 2008

  • A forest ranger, Will Ferrell,along with his two children, quite by accident, stumble into a myste...

    Hurt Locker Wins Top Honors 2007

  • A forest ranger, Will Ferrell,along with his two children, quite by accident, stumble into a myste...

    Land of the Lost Poster 2007

  • The same day in the afternoone we sawe in the element, a cloud with a long tayle, like vnto the tayle of a serpent, which cloud is called in Italian Cion, the tayle of this cloud did hang as it were into the sea: and we did see the water vnder the sayde cloude ascend, as it were like a smoke or myste, the which this Cion drew vp to it.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • With that, the gully dwarf shaman had clamped his hand over his large mouth, refusing to give Flint further clues about the myste - rious missive.

    Flint, the King Kirchoff, Mary 2003

  • There were lives at stake and responsibilities to be assumed in questing for the myste - rious magic, and if the result of his going was to secure for the people of all nations a magic that would further their development and fulfill their needs-a result that Walker had taken great pains to assure him was possible-it was the right thing to do.

    Ilse Witch Brooks, Terry 2000

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  • "Certain mystes aver that the real world has been constructed by the human mind, since (...)" -- Gene Wolfe - "The Book of the New Sun"

    Help! What does that word mean?

    September 23, 2008

  • Initiate, perhaps? (based on the original Greek etymology of mystic)

    September 23, 2008

  • Perhaps. Thanks. :-)

    September 24, 2008

  • Sorry, mystes seems to be already singular.

    October 3, 2008