Athena finds Telepaths and Pisistratus at Menelaus’s palace. Athena tells Telemarcus to return home to help stave the suitor’s attempts to sway his mother. He tells him about the ambush the suitors have set for him and tells him to go to the same swine herd to elicit the help of Eumaeus to tell Penelope that he has returned. Thus Telemarcus is drawn by divine wisdom to go seek the same swine herder his father’s inspired divine wisdom seeks out. His wisdom also forewarns him of the imamate danger the suitors will pose for him As Telemarcus prepares to leave a eagle holding a goose swoops down and lands next to Telemarcuus. Helen interprets it as a sign of Odysseus' return. The eagle had stolen the goose from the pens.
As we have already mentioned the goose was a symbol of a asexual bird that Hermes tool the form of to bring Zeus beautiful psyche down safely from the mountain Hera put her on. Here the goose is captured by the bird of prey which is the powerful eagle. Why would Helen see Odysseus as the bird of prey swooping down next to his son with a goose in hand?
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