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East.He sails towards another Island.
By Putting Wax In Their Ears.
putting wax in their ears
The seventh adventure of Odysseus is to sail past the Sirens without being lured in by their songs.
The song of the Sirens hypnotized his men into yearning to sail toward the island at which they resided luring them to their doom.
Odysseus does not plug his own ears with wax when they sail past the sirens because he wants to hear their enchanting song. He instructs his crew to tie him to the mast and not untie him no matter how much he begs, ensuring that he can listen to the sirens but not act on their call. This allows him to experience the sirens' temptation without succumbing to it.
he made his crew put wax earplugs in their ears. he himself wanted to hear the sirens beautiful music, so he asked his crew to tie him to the mast, the foundation of a sail. Odysseus's crew ties Odysseus very tightly to the mast, and disarmed him. When the were going past the sirens, Odysseus was screaming and yelling at his crew to let him go to the sirens. The crew obviously did not hear him because they had the wax ear plugs. That is how Odysseus saved his crew from the sirens.
Only one person was needed to signal to the crew mates when the sirens were singing. The others were needed to sail or row the ship.
All the crew except Odysseus fill their ears with wax, and Odysseus is tied to the mast so he can't try to steer the ship or jump overboard.
Odysseus leads his men into war against the Trojans. Later, he taunts the cyclops Polyphemus, causing Polyphemus to curse Odysseus. Still later, he leads his men into the underworld. Finally, he orders his men to sail past the Sirens, then Scylla.
You must be referring to the occasion when Odysseus and his crew were forced to sail past the Sirens. It was said their song was so enchanting that men could not resist and would turn their ships into the nearby rocks to get nearer to the enchanting sound. Invariably the ships would be destroyed and the crews lost. Odysseus was told he must endure the call of the Sirens, so he had his men plug their ears with wool and wax, and then he was strapped to the mast of the boat. The men sailed by, immune to the call of the Sirens, and Odysseus survived, as he was fated to do.
The Land of the Sirens is a mythical area in the Mediterranean Sea that comes up a lot in Greek Mythology. It is most famously used in the book The Odyssey, by Homer. Where Odysseus and his crew have to row by it. On this land, there are sirens. These Sirens are supernatural women that produce lovely songs. They are so lovely, that they lure sailors in. When the sailors are lured in too far, they hit the jagged rocks surrounding the island, and their ship wrecks. Odysseus instructs his crew to fill their ears with wax, so they will not hear the songs. He is then tied to the ship mast, so he can hear the beautiful songs, but not instruct his crew to sail there. As much as he begs and pleads, they do not sail there, and they continue to journey back to Odysseus's land of Ithaca.