Sirens of truth, foresight and enticing divine songs

Sirens of truth, foresight and enticing divine songs

After burying Elpenor Odysseus spends one last night with Circe. She foretells of his journeys to come and the trials he must pass and how to beat them. Odysseus then tells his men of Circe instruction. The first ordeal is passing close to the island of the sirens. Odysseus does not sail away from the island but rather sails close to it as instructed by Circe. She had told him to put bees wax into his crews ears so they do not hear the seductive song of the Sirens that offered glimpses into the future. Many sailors had fallen pray to this song and sailed even closer to the island to fall pray to the rocks surrendering it. Odysseus has his men tether him to the mast while they plug their ears to the sirens song. After a hearing the sirens song for a short while Odysseus begins to neg to be released and allowed to go to the sirens. His men unable to hear him or the sirens call simply tighten the ropes that bind him. Thus the religion of the Sirens which is a divine song is so seductive no one can resist it unless oblivious or ignorant of it as if their ears are plugged up. Even Odysseus is enticed by said song yet is all tighten up in being himself , being Greek, to succumb to it. The sirens promise oracles of the future and the beauty of their religion is so enticing and so true no one can resist join them to the death of their old beliefs. Only one caught in the necessity of being anything but , tied up in the need of being separate as ones own entity, like a leader of a nation, is capable of servicing this divine song, yet still fully engrossed and enthralled by it. Thus a leader of said magnitude can service yet be drawn fully by the allure of the sirens, but needed to hide the song from his crew or people lest they lost themselves, caused a death of their old song and mutinied or gave up on the authority of the old beliefs and leaders.