Part 3
    Before we set sail to the underworld, Circe gave a new shipmate to join us on our journeys. Once we reached to shores where the Cimmerian people lived, we put the anchors down and got out with our sheep. My shipmates held down two sheep as I slit their throats to add their deep red blood to the mixture of milk, honey, wine, and water. After a prayer to the dead, ghosts and spirits of the dead and gone rose up. I first saw Elpenor, my young drunken companion. He retold me of how he had dead and that he should be a proper burial, cremate in full armor, and that he should be laid be in the sandy shores of Circe's Island, and where he rests put oar that he used when he rowed among the living at that place so men that come to that place know his story.

     Finally after I had saw me mother, but who I did not talk to yet, I saw Tiresias, the Theban prophet finally stood before me, holding a golden scepter in his hand, took notice at me once and started spilling the beans about the future. Tiresias told me that my shipmates and I would wind up on an Island with the cattle of the Sun God, Helios, the one who hears and see's all. Tiresias tells me as long as we do not harm any of the cattle my crew and I should our beloved land called Ithaca at last. But that if we do harm the cattle of the sun (for some reason I feel as though we will) then my fine crew, and my swift ship should both be destroyed, and that I should wind up on a strangers ship, only to face more hardships at home, suitors will be pursuing my wife. He says that I should pay them back in blood. But even with that done my problems in Ithaca are not done. You see, Poseidon is still angry with my and I have to make some kind of tribute to him. Tiresias first told me to walk inland to find a race of people that have never seen or heard of the sea before. Once he finds this place he should put his oar down at that place and sacrifice a ram, a bull, and ramping wild boar and give noble gifts to the gods. After all this is down, then only will I be able to live in peace and die at an old ripe age.

     Next saw that my mother and she told me of how she had died of grief when I went to go fight in war of Troy. She tells me that my loyal wife Penelope awaits for me back at my house in Ithaca, and that my son Telemachus, the son I last saw when he was just a baby, was still keeping the palace at peace. She tells me of my father, Laertes, and of how he doesn't live in the palace any longer, but stays out on the farm.
      After my mother had left, soon came the souls of daughters of princes. After them came Agamemnon my old war buddy. He soon tells me of how is wife and his wives lover planed his death before he returned home. He also told me never to trust women, and to never tell Penelope the
whole truth about Troy. I also saw my old companion Achilles. Soon after the soul of Achilles faded the spirits and ghosts screams overwhelmed me and I was scared completely out of my mind. So my crew and I sped away back to Circe's Island.
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