Final+Product-Underworld

**Summary**

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Odysseus’s was sailing to the underworld, a large burning mountain that they entered. The inside of the underworld was dark but burning hot with fire falling from the walls and surrounding the water.


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The reason for going to the underworld was to meet Tiresias and find out what would happen to him and his men. The journey to find Tiresias was a maze of challenges, getting all of the dead away from him because they wanted the ram. After crawling through small tunnels and going down hot stairs he made it to Tireseas and tossed the ram into the burning lava. Tiresias then told him that all of his men we’re going to die including him. When he got back to his ship he looked half dead and his men had to carry him back on the ship.


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**Analysis**
This episode is important because Odysseus has to go through challenges to get to the fortune teller. This is also important because he has to talk to Tiresias because he wants to now how to get home to his wife and kid. Another thing is that when Odysseus went to the under world he was loosing his pride when he saw that his mother is dead. This episode is also important because Odysseus finds out that all his men where going to die on there way home. A other way this is important is when Tiresias tells Odysseus that he might not reach home. Those are some ways that this episode is important.

Definition of the Atonement with the Father
"In this step the person must confront and be initiated by whatever holds the ultimate power in his or her life. In many myths and stories this is the father, or a father figure who has life and death power. This is the center point of the journey. All the previous steps have been moving in to this place, all that follow will move out from it. Although this step is most frequently symbolized by an encounter with a male entity, it does not have to be a male; just someone or thing with incredible power. For the transformation to take place, the person as he or she has been must be "killed" so that the new self can come into being. Sometime this killing is literal, and the earthly journey for that character is either over or moves into a different realm."

**Explaining of the Atonement with the Father**
The Atonement with the Father is the central point of the Hero’s journey. All events before lead to this point, and all the events after this point move out from it. The Atonement with the Father is basically just when the hero meets and gets passed by something with ultimate power on his/her life. In, The Odyssey, “the Atonement with the Father” is when he needs to go see Tiresias, the blind seer, in the Underworld. Odysseus must sacrifice a ram (in Lava) to speak with Tiresias. When Tiresias warns Odysseus about Scylla and Charybdis, and Tiresias tells Odysseus why they are dangerous. Then, while Odysseus is heading towards his boat he meets his mother and learns about Penelope’s suitors. Then, he leaves the Underworld as a new man.