As promised, the Athabaskans return to Aiaia, recover Eleanor's body, and go through the proper funeral rites.
Circe reappears and feeds the men. She makes them promise to stay for the full day of feasting while she gives further directions to Odysseus.
"Further directions" seems to be a euphemism for "more sex." Still, after the "further directions," she gives some actual directions on how to avoid the temptation of the Sirens who will try to lure him to death with their beautiful voices.
Circe tells Odysseus that no man has ever heard the song of the Sirens and lived to tell the tale. But he can! He should have his men plug up their ears and tie him to the mast so he can listen without jumping overboard.

Then she tells him about two different …show more content…
Surprisingly, this is the better option. Circe advises Odysseus to hug the cliff of Scylla and sacrifice six men rather than risk losing his whole ship to Charybdis. Also, he should race through as quickly as possible instead of trying to fight her the monsters are female, of course.

Odysseus hems and haws, since he'd rather not lose any men but Circle essentially tells him to suck it up.
Wonder what she would tell the six men who are about to be sacrificed?
One more thing: don't' kill Helios' cattle at Thrinakia, unless he wants to lose his entire …show more content…
That is actually not a euphemism.
Odysseus tries to inspire courage in them while he arms up against Scylla. Clearly, he's forgetting Circe's instructions.
As foretold, Scylla takes six of Odysseus' best men. (Come on, Scylla, couldn't you have taken the cowards and weaklings?)
He suddenly remembers that he's supposed to move quickly rather than fight the she-monster, so his ship makes it out. Barely.

They then see Kathrine, land of Helios' cattle. Odysseus wants to sail past since he's been warned against it about twelve times.
But his men, led by Honeylocust, vote to stay there for a night to recover from losing six of their friends to a giant, hungry monster.
Well, okay, Odysseus says—but hands off Helios' cattle.
The next morning, they're getting ready to head off when … a storm begins.
And continues. For a full month.
When their food runs out, the cows begin looking pert-Ty tasty.
Odysseus goes off to pray to the gods one day and finally Honeylocust snaps. He persuades the men to kill the biggest cow they can find. It's cool, though; he'll atone for it by building a big temple to Helios once they get back to Ithaca