The Tellings of the Truth, part 4

So, after being in the underworld and speaking to Elpenor's spirit I decided the best thing to do was to return to Aiaia and give Elpenor a proper burial. I also was able to have one last night with Kirke. She told me of the things I would face in the near future and what I could do to save myself. I left the next morning and just like Kirke said I would, my men and I passed the island of the Seirenes. The Seirenes were beautiful with their seductive songs that any man would die to hear but would soon find out that they could not reach the Seirenes and would drown. To prevent this from happening to me and my crew I was able to stick beeswax into the ears of my men and blind them from the sight of the Seirenes with the mass. They tied me up because I was going to listen to the songs but if I heard them I would want to swim out to the island which I must not do. So I tried to very hard to get off but they just tied me tighter as I heard the Seirenes sing of the future they could tell me. After that island next me and my men had a choice in path that we had to make. We could either take the path of Skylla or Kharybdis. Skylla was a six headed monster that would eat sailors as they passed by and Kharybdis was a huge whirlpool that was sure to sink any ship. We made the choice of Skylla and while crossing by it ate six of my sailors but we continued on. Next we came to Thrinakia, the island of the Sun. I wanted to completely avoid stopping at the island but Eurylokhos begged and persuaded me to stop for the crew to rest on the shore. There was a mighty storm that kept us on the shore of the island for a month. We were fine for the most part until we became out of food from our supplies we had on the ship. I told the men not to take anything from the island but one day while I was asleep Eurylokhos convinced the rest of the men to go and kill some of the cattle of the Sun. Zeus was now very upset with us and as we left Thrinakia he sent a horrible storm apon us. It destroyed our boat and killed everyone on it but myself. I just barely made it out. Sometimes, for a specific reason, we live in a tragic accident to do more with our lives and I think what I have to do is spread the story of my journey and continue on to be with my family. Later I ended up at Kharybdis where I nearly escaped for a second time. I was now on a broken piece of my ship, hungry, lonely, heartbroken and scared. I reached Ogygia Isle where I ended up with Kalypso and the rest need not be told.