Once the Odyssey team sailed to the island of the sun god. Odysseus had a bad feeling and wanted to get around this island. But the team did not obey him: people are tired and hungry. They pulled the ship ashore and attacked a herd of bulls, which grazed in a meadow. They killed several fat bulls and ate. In a good mood, they untied the ropes, raised the sails and moved on. Suddenly the sun was setting and the storm rose so much that the ship sank. God Helios punished the patriarchs who dared to kill the bulls from his herd. Only Odysseus survived. Riding a log, he fought the storm for nine days. Finally, the waves threw him half-dead onto the sandy shore of Ogigia Island.
The poor nymph Calypso found. She lived in a very good grotto, around which grew cypresses, poplars, aspen. Vines rose up. Silver streams flowed from four springs, and evergreen meadows smelled of violets. Calypso watered Odysseus with nectar and fed ambrosia. Strength and health soon returned to him. And then it turned out that, despite years, work and suffering, Laertes' son was still a very handsome man. Tall, with a powerful neck, wide chest and shoulders, strong legs. Black hair fell in violent curls on his shoulders. The divine savior promised him immortality, eternal youth and asked him to become her husband. And he spent whole days on the seashore and looked towards his native Ithaca.
In the eighth year of this love captivity, the messenger of the gods, Hermes, suddenly appeared. He entered the cave. A resinous cedar tree burned at the stake. Calypso fiddled with Krosen and sang. Seeing the messenger from Olympus, she fell silent. Humbly listened to the command of Zeus and leisurely went to the sea to seek Odysseus. He, as always, sat with his eyes fixed on the blue distance. Putting her hand on her shoulder, Calypso spoke about the order of Zeus preparing to return. She, a small, insignificant nymph, cannot Resist the will of the lord of the gods. Tears streamed down her face. Calypso recalled the day she found Odyssey unconscious on the shore, how she had brought him back to life and how she loved. But he wants to leave, he wants to leave the goddess and return to his wife, an ordinary woman.
Odysseus restrained the joy that was booming. As soon as Calypso left, he set to work. Within a few days, he built a solid raft, not as good as the ship on which he sailed to Troy, but now this raft seemed to him both a home and a wide, free world. Calypso gave him food on the road and silently left. Odysseus pushed the oar off the coastal cliff and surrendered to the winds and gentle waves.
A lone traveler was noticed in the vast expanses of water by Poseidon. God remembered the request of Polyphemus. He tridented the sea and ordered the whirlwinds to blow. Two days and two terrible nights amid a howling storm and flashes of lightning, Odysseus, having lost the ship again, only fought with terrifying waves with his hands. Finally, he got to some shore and fell unconscious into the muddy land, covered with bushes in some places.