This chapter opens with a description of the ancient Greek god Olympus, which is depicted on a clay jar. The jar contains a picture of a soldier offering the jar to the gods as a gift. The image is similar to the image on the mountain behind them, which shows a storm has passed and the gods are gone. The box is described as a "jar of clay" by the Greeks, and the inscription on the jar is like a "hieroglyphic telling of a story" . The inscription and the picture on the box are like hieroglyphics, telling a story. The home of the box is identical to Olympus' peak. The soldier offers the box to the god, who brings it back to the temple. The storm is gone, but the image is still there in the box. The soldiers are offering the box as a token of their love for the gods, and they are offering it to restore order to the mountain. The images are telling them what they have to do. They are going to have to take the box up to Olympus, but they don't yet know what else is there. They have already encountered a snake, which lost its wings in the water, and lost its way through the waterfall. The boys wonder why the nurse didn't help the snake. The nurse tells the boys that she was a lifeguard for two summers, and she is glad to be back at the museum. She tells them that they can use the jar as a gun, but that she doesn't want them to carry "dead weight" on their backs. They ask her if she knows how to use the gun. She says that she used to be a cop, and that she thought it was fun to take her students diving, and it was her last day at the