Can Someone Recall Me From Exile

read ⚔️smooth is the descent⚔️ on ao3

once again I have been overtaken by hubris and made to think such things as "yeah I could render a whole suit of armour" and then I spend 3 fruitless hours and delete everything. gave up but know that a valiant effort was made

Etruscan necklace with a Phoenician pendant in the form of a bearded head

550 - 450 BCE

misc odyssey things 🐎 ino + circe

+nausicaa wip

society: ok

reference:

the proportions on the header band have improved, but I think I maybe should have doubled the weft threads for the warp.

I started weaving the spear, penelope, and the right border via double-weave with the intent to leave the remaining warp threads unwoven (as they would be on penelope's loom on the pot), but predictably this is giving me tension problems. I either need to increase the loom weights or just weave the black layer and leave the orange warp threads unwoven, and then switch colors once I get to the heddle bars in the drawing, with the black warp threads floating on top. (I guess weft-faced tapestry would be a third option, if I add a ton more tension.)

They are mentioned in different groups:

The wood that Calypso burns in her cave, and which she must obtain from somewhere, which is why I assume it is native to her region (v. 60)

Forest vegetation described as such (vv. 64-74)

Wood that she tells Odysseus to use for his raft and also to attach the logs to one another (v. 239 and v.256)

Material for Calypso’s tools (v. 236)

v. 60 → κέδρου with two possible interpretations: from κέδρον (juniper-berry) or from κέδρος, which translates as cedar, and is the one emphasised by the website itself. In this case, I believe it would be the Atlas cedar (Cedrus atlantica) because Ogygia is west of Ithaca (which means it cannot be a Lebanese cedar or Cedrus libani).

Strobilus is so cute

v. 60 → θύου with several different meanings, but as a plant, θύον here is interpreted as Callitris quadrivalvis:

v. 64 → κλήθρη from κλήθρα, here intrepeted as Alnus glutinosa:

v. 64 → αἴγειρός as Populus nigra:

v. 64 → κυπάρισσος as Cupressus sempervirens:

v. 69 → ἡμερὶς as "the cultivated vine" Vitis vinifera:

v. 72 → ἴου among the many meanings derived from ἴον, interpreted as Viola odorata:

v. 72 → σελίνου from σέλινον as Apium graveolens:

v. 236 ->  ἐλάινον from ἐλάινος as "of olive-wood" which i myself assume that to Olea oleaster (is the wild variety of Olea europaea):

v. 239 → ἐλάτη as Abies cephalonica

v. 256 οἰσυΐνῃσι οἰσύινος of osier, of wicker-work (as we say in Spanish cestería) here my friend @ulises-aithon has suggested Salix purpurea:

it will always choose you. you cannot die. you'll always come back because it loves you so much. you are its right and left hand, its eternal weapon. it will drown you in its light. light as horror. darkness as horror. what if it thinks you are its best friend.