After fleeing the scene, Odysseus sails away on his ship and returns back to Circe, the witch. He asks her many questions and she insists that she knows what is going to happen to him. She knows all of the obstacles that he is going to face along his journey.
“When your crew have carried you past this danger, you will have reached a point beyond which I cannot fully guide you. Two ways will lie before you, and you must choose between them as you see fit, though I will tell you both. “(Page, 190)
This particular passage demonstrates her knowledge about the journey that he faces in the future. After Odysseus leaves Circe, he meets Scylla, the horrible sea monster.
“She has twelve feet, all dangling in the air, and six long necks, each ending in a grisly head with triple row of teeth” (Page 191).
As he describes her, he claims that no one can really get by her on the ship. After she only eats a few of the men, he gets away, but barely. Then he heads to the island of the sun, where he tries to avoid it as much as he can. After he ends his story, he looks forward to leaving Scheria and heading home. After the land changing a lot, he doesn’t know right from wrong, so he goes out and asks a shepherd, (Athena) where he is. She tells him that he is in Ithaca.
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