Yes! I’m so glad we got that idiot Telémakhos off here… (It’s a joke, people!) I am finally on my way home after all this time! Kalypso came to me with the idea that I should return home. I, of course, accepted this notion immediately but I can’t help but ask why she didn’t think of this sooner!?! It would have made my life so much easier… However, I suppose I shouldn’t be ungrateful seen as that I am at last headed home. Once Kalypso “helped” me build a boat and gave me provisions, I was sent off onto the sea to fend for myself. Being a sailor at heart, I didn’t mind this in the least, until Poseidon decided to loose his fury on me. The sea god conjured up a huge storm and I would have drowned had Ino not seen and taken pity on me. She gave me her veil so that I couldn’t be drowned and though I first thought it to ba a trap, I am now eternally grateful to her. I made it safely to land by some miracle.
Guest Blogger Telémakhos:
Hey everyone, I’m back to be the rational one. Just don’t tell my dad, he probably thought I was stealing the show or something… I was very interested by the fact that Zeus said, (regarding my father), “His destiny is to see his friends again under his own roof, in his father’s country.” (Odyssey 82). I certainly believe this as it was said by the Almighty Zeus himself but, I don’t know, I just wonder what fate would be if not for the gods. They seem to “decide” it and then they back up
whatever their little scales say in whichever way they can. Is this to say the gods don’t have enough confidence in their own power to go against fate? And I wonder whether these destinies and dooms would even exist if no one believed in them. Perhaps if the gods didn’t care which way the scales initially tipped, they could tip them in whichever way that pleased them. Why don’t they dare to take the chance? I don’t believe they have any proof that they couldn’t turn the tables the way they wanted them. A great example of this resignation to fate is Hector’s death. All the gods aiding him fled from his side and Athena even worked against him to make the death quicker. Could the choices of these gods have changed fate? My father earlier commented on honor and staying inside the realm of comfort and security; it seems that gods as well as humans have a comfort zone and are unwilling to leave it. Could this be why the mightiest beings of heaven allow themselves to be commanded by something as abstract and illusive as fate?
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