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Odysseus had to sacrifice a black sheep, letting the prophet Tiresias drink of it. Thus would Tiersias prophesize for Odysseus, letting him know how to reach his home.
Just before the ship that helped Odysseus reaches shore, it is turned into a rock and sunk by Poseidon.
Ino tells Odysseus to dive into the ocean and swim to shore, throwing her enchanted scarf which will protect him back into the ocean after he reaches land.
That Odysseus not be allowed to return home.
Odysseus reaches the land of the Phaeacians and their kind king, Alcinoüs. The king’s daughter, Nausicaä, finds Odysseus, naked and filthy from sleeping on the ground, and leads him to the king. Received warmly, Odysseus tells the story of his wanderings.
Odysseus had to sacrifice a black sheep, letting the prophet Tiresias drink of it. Thus would Tiersias prophesize for Odysseus, letting him know how to reach his home.
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Just before the ship that helped Odysseus reaches shore, it is turned into a rock and sunk by Poseidon.
Odysseus falls asleep under an olive tree when he finally reaches the Phaiakian shore. He is exhausted from the journey and is discovered by Nausikaa, the princess of the Phaiakians, who helps him and eventually leads him to safety.
After Zeus destroys Odysseus' ship, Odysseus drifts on a raft for ten days until he arrives on Calypso's island. The rest of his crew drown. After Odysseus sets sail on a raft from Calypso's island, he drifts for twenty days until he reaches Scheria, the land of the Phaecians, and is forced to swim to shore, drifting for three days towards the island before he reaches it.
Ino tells Odysseus to dive into the ocean and swim to shore, throwing her enchanted scarf which will protect him back into the ocean after he reaches land.
Ino tells Odysseus to take off her veil after he reaches the shore, and throw it back into the ocean, so that she may retrieve it.
That Odysseus not be allowed to return home.
Odysseus reaches the land of the Phaeacians and their kind king, Alcinoüs. The king’s daughter, Nausicaä, finds Odysseus, naked and filthy from sleeping on the ground, and leads him to the king. Received warmly, Odysseus tells the story of his wanderings.
Odysseus returns to Ithaca in Book 13 of The Odyssey. This is where he meets with his loyal swineherd, Eumaeus, and begins to plan out his revenge against the suitors.
Teiresias tell Odysseus many things about his journey home.The journey home will be tough for Odysseus because Poseidon still bears a grudge against Odysseus for blinding Polyphemus.When Odysseus reaches the isle of Thrinacia, he will find the Cattle of Helios.If Odysseus and his men touch the Cattle of Helios, Odysseus men will all die, and Odysseus will only return home in someone else's ship, with trouble at home. Circe later repeats this prediction.There will be many suitors in Ithaca, whom Odysseus must kill.Odysseus must make a journey with an oar until he reaches a place so far from the sea that people do not recognize the oar. There he shall set the oar as a shrine, and sacrifice to appease Poseidon.Odysseus will then die of old age, with a blessed kingdom.
they stop to get food from harboring ships.. and Odysseus told his men STAY AWAY from the cattle they are not ours to eat then he went to bed. and as he slept his men began to slaughter them all