I set off on my journey home, and my first stop was the cicones. I raided the city of Cicones with my men, slaughtering their men and enslaved their women, we also kill all of their stock and set sail again.
I then set sail on another island and took half my crew to look for shelter and food. We found a cave with cheese, so we took some and thanked the gods. Then a Cyclops came and tried to eat us, we stabbed the cyclops in his eye blinding him. We later escaped by holding onto the underside of the sheep.
While we were sailing we saw an island with a palace on the top of a mountain, we went on the island of Aeolia. Aeolus treated us with lots of respect and kindness, so I decided to tell Aeolus and his children some of my journeys/stories, they enjoyed them so much that I decided to stay on Aeolian for a month. After a month passed I decided to leave but first Aeolus gave me a gift in my bag and said do not open it until you truly need it.
I then when to the land of the dead to meet Teiresias. I first had to make a sacrifice, as Circe told me to do. I started to see souls once I did the sacrifice, the first one was one of my crew members that I lost at the island of Aeaea, the second soul I saw was Teiresias, he told me that Poseidon is punishing the Achaens for blinding his son and that I will return home, he warns me not to touch or eat the cattle on the island of the sun god. I also got to talk and see my mother, and she tells me what was happening at home and how died in grief waiting for me.
Circe warned me about Charybdis and Scylla, but she did not tell my crew. I had to pick to either go through Charybdis or Scylla, Charybdis had a whirlpool that would kill everyone, but Scylla would only take the life of 6 of my men. Circe told me to go with Scylla, so I wouldn't have to lose all my men I'd only have to lose 6. I felt like I couldn't do anything to not lose any of my men but there was no paths around that.
My crew see lands and wants to stop on the island of Thrinkia and rest, we went to the island but I told my crew that they could not touch or eat the sheep or cattle. The next day they were ready to leave but there was a very strong wind that didn't let us leave. Circe had gave us food but we ran out of food, so we had to catch fish and kill birds. My crew were tired of the food we were eating so they decided to eat the cattle. The sun god then woke up and found out that some of his animals had been eaten. He punished me and my crew and he threatened not to let sun on the earth unless they prayed with their lives for what they have done. Zeus aimed thunderbolts towards my ship, destroying it, and I was left in the water and made a little raft and continued to sail home.
Credits:
Created with images by ccarlstead - "Trojan Horse at Troy" • MCAD Library - "Troilos Slain by Achilles, drawing after interior tondo of an Attic red-figure kylix" • Sean MacEntee - "Beach" • pviverito - "T0053" • Jorge Lascar - "Troy archaeological site and a Trojan horse" • Mariamichelle - "ship boat lake garda" • MustangJoe - "beach dominican republic dominican" • Joe Shlabotnik - "Kid"