To discover the answer
to each riddle,
go forward in the alphabet to the next letter
for each letter given.
of sound;
the first
two named in
turn name me.
BMQIBCFU
Spears and arrows branch and river.
When it splits a dome it changes oxygen.
A sacred spot grows the best corn.
MJHIUOJOH
It could suck its own feet
if it had any.
When it travels, the land passes through it.
It can mother or father;
its children are born from a ring.
Its shadow hugs its belly.
FBSUIXPSN
To falter, to give way.
Others:
On the hearth or on a path it lays
Scaled from cliffs like flaking skin.
Sometimes it's called soap
(Which nothing washes in.)
A third way:
Limp when the air is, still, it flutters
and flaps when the air flutters and flaps
and tells a message then.
GMBH