Finder's Guide

Play by Villiers de l'Isle Adam publsihed posthumously, 1890.

Fishburn and Hughes: "A 'temple of the axes' seems not to have existed in Crete, but a temple was uncovered at Haghia Triadha in southern Crete containing carvings of axes on the pedestals. A sarcophagus found in the same area shows two scenes in which an axe is worshipped. In Greek labrys, a word of Lydian origin, meant a double-edged axe, often related to the figure of an ox, from which the word labyrinth is thought to derive." (20)

city and former capital of Ethiopia

city in Peru, site of decisive battle of wars of independence in 1824, formerly called Huamanga.

Fishburn and Hughes:  "A decisive battle fought on 9 December 1824 in the Peruvian Sierra, half-way between Lima and Cuzco, in which the Peruvian forces led by José Sucre defeated the royalist army of Spain. This victory finally established the independence of Peru after three centuries of Spanish colonial rule." (20)

street in Buenos Aires

Parodi: "La calle Ayacucho es la primera paralela a Riobamba hacia el oeste de la ciudad" (410).

town in the province of Buenos Aires

Spanish novelist who lived in Buenos Aires in the 1940s, 1906-2009

Portuguese writer, author of Goa antiga y moderna, 1927, and Os Ideaes de O. Martins

Aias or Ajax, king of Salamis and hero in the Iliad and later works

County town of Buckinghamshire, England.

imaginary city in the Nibelungenlied

Inuit child in Paul Emile Victor book

Spanish philosopher and politician, 1800-1886

street in Buenos Aires

character in Borges story

character in Borges story

Borges's maternal grandfather, d. 1905

Argentine writer, author of Floresta de leyendas rioplatenses

pseud. of José Martínez Ruiz, Spanish writer, 1873-1967