In the ritual of Hades, in the land of Perce phony the first soul Odysseus encounters is Elpenor the crew member who fell and broke his back on Circes Island. Elpenor begs Odysseus to return to Circe’s island and properly bury him. Odysseus then encounters the Theban prophet Teiresias who tells of his future.
The first soul represents the past of the Greeks dieing and decaying as the old humanity falls to the past. The Theban prophet Teiresias represents the future of the Greeks and that eventually they will have to appease Poseidon for their sea faring exploits esp. against the Cyclops. Teiresias is a prophet now dead but who sees into the future and foretells of the future by way of prophesy. The rash Greeks are dead and being buried while the Greeks foreseen by prophets and holy men are being formed in the future a new people born anew from the womb of Hades
More to finish what we skipped in book 11 and why we did tomorrow
I will be posting an idea concerning an elected Governor General momentarily.
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