![]() ![]() She explained that she was not flesh and bones but just a soul. He tried to embrace her three times but couldn't. She relayed that Laertes was not doing well because he was sick with longing for his son. He told her that he had not yet been home and she told him that Penelope was still there with Telemachus. She came to him after awhile and asked him why he was in the gloom of the dead and not in Ithaca. Odysseus asked him why his mother did not look at him and Tiresias said that she must be allowed to taste the blood. After he deals with the suitors in Ithaca, he is to walk inland until he finds people who have never heard of the sea and sacrifice to Poseidon. He told him not to kill the cattle of the sun and he foresaw that he will return home alone. Odysseus rested and Tiresias warned him of the trouble ahead. I shall speak true." Book 11, lines 106-7. After here, Tiresias arrived and spoke: "Stand clear, put up your sword / let me but taste of blood. Odysseus' mother Antikleia came next but Odysseus had to hold her off with a sword. Elpenor told them what happened to him and asked them to come back and bury him before they went home. The first of the dead to walk into the pit was Elpenor. The shadows of the dead began to gather around this. He let the blood and gore of the beasts fall into the pit. Odysseus addressed a prayer to the dead and sacrificed the sheep into a pit that had been dug. Here Eurylochus and another prepared the ram and ewe for sacrifice. The came to the land of the men of winter and beached the ships. ![]() As they flee the destruction, Lot’s wife looks back upon the city and is turned into a pillar of salt (19:12–29).They sailed through the night into the sea. ![]() Finding only Lot and his family as righteous among the inhabitants, the angels warn Lot to quickly evacuate the city and not look back. Lot offers the mob his daughters instead, but this only further enrages the mob, who are then struck blind by the angelic guests (19:1–11). Two angels, appearing as men, are sent to Lot in Sodom but are met with a wicked mob who ask for the newcomers. God first agrees to spare the cities if 50 righteous people can be found and eventually agrees to spare them if 10 righteous people can be found (18:23–32). Abraham seems to negotiate with God on behalf of the righteous in the two cities. Abraham pleads for the lives of any righteous people living there, especially the lives of his nephew, Lot, and his family. In the Genesis account, God reveals to Abraham that Sodom and Gomorrah are to be destroyed for their grave sins (18:20). Sodom and Gomorrah along with the cities of Admah, Zeboiim, and Zoar (Bela) constituted the five “cities of the plain,” and they are referenced throughout both the Old and New Testament and the Qurʾān. Sodom and Gomorrah, notoriously sinful cities in the biblical book of Genesis, destroyed by “sulfur and fire” because of their wickedness (Genesis 19:24).
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