| A | B |
|---|
| The Divine Maternity | Virgin Mary |
| Daniel | was a prophet who could explain dreams and stange writing |
| Lethe | a river in Hades, the Underworld - drinking from it made the dead forget their past lives. |
| Nepenthe | was a drug the ancient Greeks thought wold cause one to forget sorrow and pain. |
| Paracelsus | (1493-1541)was a doctor, alchemist, and astrologer |
| Eden | refers to the "garden of Eden" in the bible. The narrator is suggesting that Pearl is a perfect child. |
| Cadmus | In Greek mythology, he killed a dragon and planted its teeth in the ground. The teeth sprouted an army of soldiers. |
| Martin Luther | was one of the founders of the Protestant religion. |
| John the Baptist | In the Bible, Salome was given his head on a platter. |
| John Bunyan's awful doorway | is the doorway to hell in John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress. |
