You must journey to the land of the dead and meet the blind prophet Tiresias
Thank you, I will head there at once
Odysseus is going into the underworld to meet the blind prophet Tiresias
I vow to slaughter my best heifer before she calves at home in Ithaca
And sacrifice a black lamb handsomest of out flock
I drank so much wine and slept on Circe's roof, Then fell. My neck bone snapped and my spirit found this well of dark.
How is this Elpenor? how can you journey to the underworld faster than I in the black lugger?
I pray do not abandon me UN-wept , unburied. Fire my corpse and all gear i had, and build a cairn
Unhappy spirit i promise you the barrow and the burial.
Now came the soul of Anteclea, dead my mother, though living when i took the ship to holy troy, Seeing this ghost i grieved but held her off through pang of tears.