The tapestries of ancient texts are woven with the threads of mortals and immortals. The Bible, Koran, Epic of Gilgamesh, Emerald Tablet of ancient Egypt, and the Book of Enoch are only a few among the many standing testaments to ancient man’s yearning for understanding and belonging, often discovering answers outside of the physical and logical. In turn, the myths, songs, poems, and stories of ancient Greece find solace and kin to other ancient writings. Their culture and beliefs swirl within words, revealing the path of humanity and its inevitable intertwining with the divine, exemplified by the narrative of the Greek hero, Odysseus in Homer’s “The Odyssey.” As highlighted in Book 12, Homer depicts Odysseus as a mortal struggling to control and overcome a fate set course by gods, whose wisdom and abilities find favor and falling with the same gods, and reveals Homer’s own convictions of the divine and its position within human lives. The supernatural is an unavoidable element in the epic “The Odyssey,” and is equally important to Odysseus’ fate as his own decisions and actions. The foundation for the roads set in motion for him was often the handiwork of the god Poseidon, angered at Odysseus’ success at Troy, and the blinding of his son. It is by Poseidon’s divinity, fueled by his thirst for revenge, Odysseus is pitted against the mythological (McLeish p. #). While the hurdles placed before Odysseus were based on divine choices, it is his reactions to those hurdles which ultimately steered his fate. “Odysseus repeatedly uses his wits, ruses, deceptions, and analytical thought to get himself out of scrapes” (Lawson p. #). In Book 12, Odysseus is warned of the Sirens, Skylla, Charybdis, and the dangers of the Thrinaian island by Kirke. All of these obstacles are beyond his control, but he is given advice on how to avoid them, or how to suffer the least amount of lose. In his control are his own actions, lea