ODYSSEY XIX, 268-286

"Thus did Pheidon, king of the Thesproteans, tell me the story;
swearing to me, as he poured the wine in his home,
that the ship was being launched and his comrades were ready:
those which shall take him to his dear native land.

But he sent me off first, for a Thesprotean ship just
happened to be travelling to wheat-rich Doulichion,
and he showed me the things, treasure that Odysseus had collected,
so great as to still feed his heirs unto ten generations,
so great was his wealth stored in the king's palace.

But, he said Odysseus had gone to Dodona to hear for himself,
from the high-topped oaks, the counsel of Zeus, so that he might
return to his own dear fatherland,
whether openly or else covertly,
after being away so long.

So he is thus safe, and shall soon come, and is very near, and
he will not be away much longer from his loved ones nor very long
from the earth of his nativeland --- that I swear to you.

Let Zeus now witness, as highest and most powerful of gods, and
also the hearth of noble Odysseus at which I am present,
that all these things will be accomplished even as I say.
Within this very going of the light, will Odysseus come hence
during the waning of the moon, during this darkling phase."

Washington Park (by starlight)

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In Springing starlight | on Sacajewa' statue | Sperms his careless love

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Lord of the Vulva ( ht J R R Tolkien )

One vulva to bind them all.

One vulva to find them.

One vulva to draw them all

Into darkness to blind them.