Chapter Word / Term Ref. / Further Reading
1 Zeno https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeno’s_paradoxes#Dichotomy_paradox
vitalists people who believe there is something beyond mere material in living things. That there is some vital force.
Scutums tall, rectangular Roman shield
tenebrous (dark, murky, obscure)
Hündin German for female dog, bitch.
élan vital vital impetus. Élan vital (French pronunciation: [elɑ̃ vital]) is a term coined by French philosopher Henri Bergson in his 1907 book Creative Evolution, in which he addresses the question of self-organisation and spontaneous morphogenesis of things in an increasingly complex manner. https://www.britannica.com/topic/elan-vital-philosophy
3 Perun In Slavic mythology, Perun (Cyrillic: Перýн) is the highest god of the pantheon and the god of sky, thunder, lightning, storms, rain, law, war, fertility and oak trees.[2]
Perkwunos (Proto-Indo-European: ‘the Striker’ or ‘the Lord of Oaks’) is the reconstructed name of the weather god in Proto-Indo-European mythology.
Perkūnas (Lithuanian: Perkūnas, Latvian: Pērkons. [1] Old Prussian: Perkūns, Perkunos, Yotvingian: Parkuns, Latgalian: Pārkiuņs) was the common Baltic god of thunder, and the second most important deity in the Baltic pantheon after Dievas. In both Lithuanian and Latvian mythology, he is documented as the god of sky, thunder, lightning, storms, rain, fire, war, law, order, fertility, mountains, and oak trees.[2][3]
Sul, or Sulis The goddess of healing waters, and had a shrine at the thermal springs at Bath. The Romans identified Sul with their goddess Minerva, and built a temple, the temple of Sulis Minerva on the site of the spring. A nourishing, life-giving mother goddess and an effective agent of curses wished by her votaries.
Helios Greek god of and personification of, the Sun
Arinna Cult center of the Hittite Sun god, dUTUURU
Hvare-khshaeta Zoroastrian yazata (divinity) of the “Radiant Sun.”
Surya The Sun, and the solar deity in Hinduism
Sol Invictus The Roman, Unconquered Sun
Viracocha The creator deity in the pre-Inca and Incan Andes
4 Parian marble The bittersweet (4:34) story of Earth’s finest marble (YouTube).
5 mos maiorum The mos maiorum (Classical Latin: [ˈmoːs majˈjoːrʊ̃]; “ancestral custom”[1] or “way of the ancestors”, plural mores, cf. English “mores”; maiorum is the genitive plural of “greater” or “elder”) is the unwritten code from which the ancient Romans derived their social norms.
6 Bürgerbräukeller Where Adolf Hitler launched the Beer Hall Putsch in November 1923 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%BCrgerbr%C3%A4ukeller
7 Glamim Plural of golem. A golem (/ˈɡoʊləm/ GOH-ləm; Hebrew: ‎גּוֹלֶם, romanized: gōlem) an animated, anthropomorphic being in Jewish folklore, which is entirely created from inanimate matter, usually clay or mud. Golem legend.
8 Gladius Hispaniensis Roman sword https://www.worldhistory.org/Gladius_Hispaniensis/ https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/the-roman-gladius/
Brokkr and Eitri In Norse mythology, Brokkr (Old Norse: [ˈbrokːz̠], “the one who works with metal fragments; blacksmith”, anglicized Brokk) is a dwarf, and the brother of Eitri.
Goibniu The smith of the Irish gods - https://ydalir.ca/celticgods/goibniu/
Svarog Slavic god of blacksmithing - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svarog
9 capulus, pelpate
10 zhanmadao The zhanmadao (Chinese: 斬馬刀; pinyin: zhǎnmǎdāo; lit. ‘horse chopping saber’) was a single-bladed anti-cavalry Chinese sword.