"We're grouping the words wrong - Ioves dies. The original Latin for Thursday."
Thursday (is the fourth or fifth day of the week. According to the ISO 8601 international standard adopted in most western countries, it is the fourth day of the week. In countries that use the Sunday-first convention Thursday is defined as the fifth day of the week. It is the fifth day of the week in the Judeo-Christian calendar as well, and was defined so in the ancient Mesopotamian and biblical calendars. It falls between Wednesday and Friday. The name is derived from Old English Þūnresdæg and Middle English Thuresday, which means "Thor's day".
The contemporary name comes from the Old English Þunresdæg, "Thunor's Day" (with loss of -n-, first in northern dialects, from influence of Old Norse Þorsdagr, meaning "Thor's Day"). Thunor and Thor are derived from the Proto-Germanic god Thunraz, god of thunder, while German Donnerstag is derived from Donar (see Donar Oak).
In most Romance languages, the day is named after the Roman god, Jupiter who was the god of sky and thunder. In Latin, the day was known as Iovis Dies, "Jupiter's Day". In Latin the Genitive or possessive case of Jupiter was Iovis/Jovis and thus in most Romance languages it became the word for Thursday: Italian giovedì, Spanish jueves, French jeudi, Catalan dijous, and Romanian joi. This is also reflected in the p-Celtic Welsh dydd Iau.
In most of the Indic languages the word for Thursday is Guruvar — var meaning day and guru being the style for Bṛhaspati, guru to the gods and regent of the planet Jupiter. In Thai, the word is Wan Pharuehatsabodi - referring to the Hindu deity Bṛhaspati, also associated with Jupiter.
Thor's day
Since the Roman god Jupiter was identified with Thunor (Norse Thor in northern Europe), most Germanic languages name the day after this god: Torsdag in Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish, Hósdagur/Tórsdagur in Faroese, Donnerstag in German or Donderdag in Dutch. Finnish, a non-Germanic (Uralic) language, uses the borrowing "Torstai". In the extinct Polabian Slavic language, it was perundan, Perun being the Slavic equivalent of Thor
Bernard of Menthon, born in Savoy in 923, died in Novara in 1008. He was sainted by Pope Pius in 1923."
The only Bernard of Menthon has dates that do not match what Cussler gave here.
From his pack he withdrew a pair of Petzl Cosmique ice axes
The Petzl Cosmique is a very sturdy T-rated forged head axe with a well-shaped adze and durable rubber shaft grip. At around 650 grams (depending on length) its not particularly light, but it feels beautifully weighted and will power easily into even the hardest snow and ice. At about £90 it isn’t particularly cheap but it's so well made it will probably be the only one you will ever buy.
Petzl also do a lighter version of the Petzl Cosmique called, you guessed it, the Petzl Cosmique Light! This is about 100 grams lighter, about £15 cheaper but is B-rated and has no shaft grip. Another excellent axe.
The ceiling was three feet tall and covered in "popcorn," tiny clusteers of calcite.Sam pulled a chem-light tube his pack, cracked it, and shook it until it glowed neon green.
Cave popcorn, or coralloids, are small nodes of calcite, aragonite or gypsum that form on surfaces in caves, especially limestone caves.They are a common type of speleothem.
Cave popcorn with frostwork
Appearance
The individual nodules of cave popcorn range in size from 5-20 mm and may be decorated by other speleothems especially aragonite needles or frostwork.The nodules tend to grow in clusters on bedrock or the sides of other speleothems. These clusters may terminate suddenly in either an upward or downward direction forming a stratographic layer When they terminate in a downward direction, they may appear as flat bottomed formations otherwise known as trays.
Cave popcorn trays
Individual nodes of popcorn can assume a variety of shapes from round to flattened ear or button like shapes.
The color of cave popcorn is usually white but various other colors are possible depending on the composition.
Formation
Button cave popcorn
This is a Xiphos. It was carried by Spartan infantrymen.
The Xiphos (Greek: (το) ξίφος) is a double-edged, single-hand sword used by the ancient Greeks. It was a secondary battlefield weapon for the Greek armies after the spear or javelin. The classic blade was generally about 50–60 cm long, although the Spartans supposedly started to use blades as short as 30 cm around the era of the Greco-Persian Wars. The Xiphos sometimes has a midrib, or is diamond or lenticular in cross-section. It was generally hung from a baldric under the left arm.The Xiphos was generally used only when the spear was discarded for close combat. Very few Xiphoi seem to have survived; photos of some of these can be found via the footnotes.
...who immediately contacted the director of the Delphi Archaological Museum
Delphi Archaeological museum is the museum that houses the ancient artifacts that were found in Delphi, Greece. Its centerpiece are the antiquities found in the complex of the ancient Oracle of Delphi from the 18th century BC when the oracle was founded to its decline in Late Antiquity. Its exhibits are mainly offerings to the oracle and architectural parts of the buildings.
Their first stop was the Newberry Library in Chicago
The Newberry Library is a privately endowed, independent research library for the humanities and social sciences in Chicago, Illinois. Although it is a non-circulating library, the Newberry is free and open to the public. The collections embrace Western civilization from the late Middle Ages to the end of the Napoleonic Era in Europe, from the Era of European Exploration to the Age of Revolution in Latin America, and to modern times in North America. Within this framework are a variety of specialized collections, on such diverse topics as North American Indians and the history of printing. The Newberry houses a large collection of maps, manuscripts, sheet music, and other printed material.
AND SPARTAN GOLD IS COMPLETE. NEXT WE RE-TAKE UP ICEBERG, AND THE FIRST KURT AUSTIN.
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