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How do you make the spirits of the underworld appear from the votive pit? [3 cards]
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--dig well shaft a forearm square; pour sweet milk, honey, wine, water into the shaft; throw white barley into the shaft; pray . . .
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. . . votive pit continued
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Swear to sacrifice a heifer; vow to sacrifice a black lamb to Teiresias; slash the throats of a black ewe and a black ram; turn toward the ocean . . .
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. . . votive pit conintued
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Crouch down and with your sword ward off the phantoms; shades of people cannot speak until you give them blood to drink
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What are the four warnings of Kirke?
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Sail past the Seirenes; avoid the drifting rocks; find a passage between Skylla and Kharybdis; do not touch the cattle of the sun-god on Thrinakia
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What is MY FAVORITE part of the epic?
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"Eumaios crossed the court and whent straight forward into the megaron among the suitors; / but death and darkness in that instant closed / the eyes of Argos who had seen his master / Odysseus after twenty years."
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