When Panurge talks about being on a mountain and hearing, he's alluding to Moses receiving the Judaic law on Mount Sinai. He claims the people "saw the voices sensibly." This is a clear biblical reference to the people of Israel hearing God via thunder and lightning. It's a climactic scene in the Bible, and the narrator suggests that with God, all things are possible. The passage uses this allusion to explore the tension between belief and the need for empirical evidence. https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/2663468-la-vie-de-gargantua-et-de-pantagruel

A mazer is a hardwood drinking bowl. Alder trees are a kind of tree that grown on wet and swampy ground forming alder woods. These trees turn to a deep orange when cut that could also look like a blood red. This is how this simile is created, comparing his eyes to a bowl made of alder tree wood. https://treesforlife.org.uk/into-the-forest/trees-plants-animals/trees/alder/alder-mythology-and-folklore/

This piece of dialogue speaks on how men love themselves more than others. This shows us that Jason is not the only man who is like this and many women have been deceived in the past. Men think more about new Women and how good it will be with them rather than sticking with their families. This goes into how men use oaths for their own gain and do not keep true to them and how they have been doing it for a long time.

Cato, Farrah. “Medea, Euripides.” Introduction to World Literature Anthology, UCF Pressbooks, 10 Jan. 2022, pressbooks.online.ucf.edu/lit2110fc/chapter/medea/.

A Kalpa is a single day of Brahma, made up of 1,000 cycles of 4 yugas or ages: Satya, Treta, Dvapara, and Kali. Satya is known for being an age of virtue, wisdom, and righteousness, with little to no ignorance or evil. Treta introduces vice and a gradual decline in virtue. In Dvapara religion and virtue decline further and Vice increases. kali is marked with strife, ignorance, and widespread vice and is the present Yuga we are in right now.

“Bhagavad Gita as It Is Original by Prabhupada.” Bhagavad Gita As It Is Original by Prabhupada, asitis.com/8/17.html#:~:text=A%20kalpa%20is%20a%20day,the%20yuga%20lasts%201%2C728%2C000%20years. Accessed 31 Jan. 2025.