The saga continues

Do you think Telemachus visits that salted field and thinks of his father?

Penelope tells him how much his father loved him. How he saved him. Kissing his cheek as her own tears fall.

They go together and she tells him how it went, voice trembling, remembering the fear and anger she felt then as it bubbled within her once more.

He's told how his father lunged to save him, thundering hooves nearly crushing his head. How the king trembled as he cooed to his baby. Comforting his son as much as himself, fearing what may have happened if he was not quick enough.

Does Telemachus know that Odysseus would do anything to be able to soothe him again? To kiss those dampened cheeks and pull him into his chest once more?

Does the young prince dig his hands into the dirt? Trying to find anything left from his father?

Does he feel like he also cannot grow just like that field? As though he is partially stunted?

All day long her sails were full as she held her course over the sea, but when the sun went down and darkness was over all the earth, we got into the deep waters of the river Oceanus, where lie the land and city of the Cimmerians who live enshrouded in mist and darkness which the rays of the sun never pierce neither at his rising nor as he goes down again out of the heavens, but the poor wretches live in one long melancholy night. When we got there we beached the ship, took the sheep out of her, and went along by the waters of Oceanus till we came to the place of which Circe had told us. Then came the ghost of my dead mother Anticlea, daughter to Autolycus. I had left her alive when I set out for Troy and was moved to tears when I saw her, but even so, for all my sorrow I would not let her come near the blood till I had asked my questions of Teiresias.

Odysseus ventures into the Land of the Dead

Hermes is so magical

The Wind God has offered a challenge! Do you accept?

Keep your friends close ↑

that's a pretty cool foreshadowing, Odysseus is saying this to himself after days of not sleeping, almost trying to convince himself it's true, but he knows he has to change in order to get them home

No longer you ↓

(especially after meeting with Poseidon later) and in the song monster he accepts this

"i want a cat! no, two! ill call them odysseus and penelope!" -me

odysseus and athena

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meditations on the odyssey

The saga continues

"Is the cyclops struck with guilt when he kills? Is he up in the middle of the night?

Or does he end my men to avenge his friend, and then sleep knowing he has done him right?"

"When the witch turns men to pigs to protect her nymphs is she going insane?

Or did she learn to be colder when she got older, and now she saves them the pain?"

"When a god comes down and makes a fleet drown is he scared that he's doing something wrong?

Or does he keep us in check so we must respect him, and now no one dares to piss him off?"

"Does a soldier use a wooden horse to kill sleeping trojans 'cause he is vile?

Or does he throw away his remorse and saves more lives with guile?"

He...uh, isn't doing too well

The obsession for Epic continues with Odysseus and Athena

Their relationship is... Complex

So that's basically what happened in "The Cyclops Saga" right ?