Book 18

Ok, so quick summary of what has happened recently caz I gots lots to say.  So, another beggar named Iros comes the the manor, challenges me to a wrestling match unaware of who I am.  I make quick work of him and the suitors congratulate me on my victory with a feast.  Then Penelope comes down to the hall for a visit looking as beautiful as ever! And she tells all the suitors to bring her gifts.  Then I get in a argument with Eurymakhos, and the suitors get drunk and go home.

I had some really philisophical moments today!

I realized that of all the creatures on this planet mankind is the weakest.  Everything we do say, and all the things that are meant to be, are all for the most part planed out by the Gods themselves.

You cannot pretend as if you are some kind of great godly being when in reality, the Gods are just helping you along making sure you do not mess up.  I did, thinking that I was all powerful, and look at how I ended up?  Getting trapped on an island after a long war because I gave myself too much credit.

Men cannot act as if what the Gods gave them was natural.  That would be exactly like breaking an unwritten rule.  A man should happily accept whatever the Gods gave to them.

If men try to take advantage of other men using the luck that they earned or not, they should be punished.  Although the Gods did not speak or say it, men are equals and no man should take control of another.  

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This is me fighting against the other beggar Iros.

Book 17

WOW!  That hurt a lil' bit.  But once I reveal to them my true identity, Antinoos, and all the suitors are going to pay.  So, I went to the castle disguised as a beggar, and ate with the suitors.  Meanwhile, Telemakhos had went back to the castle and told Penny about what he had heard of me, while a worker than said that I was in Ithaca.  So then me and Antinoos get in this fight, and he throws a stool at me! So then Penny wants to meet the beggar that the suitors are beating up, but I do not wanna go cause I think that would make the suitors jealous.

Now I wonder what woulda happened if I woulda visited Penny. I mean Antinoos is already ticked off. I wonder if he would have tried to kill me thinking that I was a threat to him marrying Penny. But if that had happened, then it just would have started the inevitable battle between us and the suitors. So, I guess you could just say somethings are destined to happen. No matter what, we will fight the suitors, and we will win. Odysseus will rule again. 

www.mMlahanas.de/.../ Texts/Odyssey/Odyssey17.html  This is me getting hit with the chair.

Book 16

I think this is one of the first times in my life that I have ever cried.  Well, besides the whole every single day for twenty years on Kalypso's island, but besides that.  Me and my boy Telemakhos were reunited, and it feels so good.  So I was at the swineherd's cabin, and Telemakhos walks in, having no idea who I am.  Then the swineherd leaves, and I reveal my true identity to him, and we have an emmotional moment.  Then, we start to plan ways on how to get rid of those suitors.  Its a pretty cool plan that involves me dressing up as a beggar, but that I'll save for another time.

So I think I have some work to do before Telemakhos becomes the great man he is destined to be.  But I think that tells you that it is not all going to happen on its own.  Telemakhos needed me to be there for him, so I can raise him correctly, but I messed that up pretty badly.  I am going to attempt to be the man I should have been, and give Telemakhos the true pride of being Telemakhos, son of Odysseus.

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that is me and Telemakhos being reunited.

Book 12

Continuing my story......

Now where was I?  Oh yea, so we went back to Circe's island to fetch our fallen brother's body, and spend the night there.  Then we continue our journey heading towards home.  Our next obstacle came when we were passing the island of the Sirens, so I put earwax in my soldier's ears, and had them tie me down so none of us would be trapped by the deadly seductive singing of the Sirens.  Then we have to sail in between a giant whirlpool that swallows ships whole, and the island of a six headed beast that eats one sailor per head each time he gets the chance.  Later, we went to the island of the Suns, and the crew wanted to take a pit stop there, so we stop.  After a storm beaches us there, we eventually run out of food, and my stupid crew begins taking the cattle of the sun, just as the prophet told us not to.  When we leave, Zeus is told of our wrongdoing, and sends a terrible storm that kills all except me, and that leads to me being stuck on Kalypso's island.

I just so not understand why my crew never ever listens to me!  First, they opened the bag of winds, right as we were about to get home.  Then, they eat the cattle of the sun when I gave them strict instructions not to.  And they all unfortunately perished.  Why don't they listen to me? Well, I hate to say it, but I think part of it is jealousy.  They wish they could be me.  And they dont like how I give the orders, and tell them what to do.  But I deserve my position! I worked hard.  Maybe thats another reason that they are MY soldiers, or were my soldiers, they are low in the brain area.

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This is the 6 headed beast that killed 6 of my men....