Tiresias

=Tiresias (tye-REE-see-us)=

speaking with Tiresias. Odysseus traveled to the distant
western edge of the earth, and he crossed the great river that flows around it. As he was entering Hades, he dug a pit and filled it with sacrificial blood to summon the ghosts of the dead. Tiresias, one of the dead ghosts gave him the neccesary advice. Luckily, for Odysseus's sake he was a helpful and forgiving prophet.

=The Story of Tiresias "The Blind Prophet"= Tiesias was the son of Everes and the nymph Charicolo. He was the blind prophet, not from birth, and the most famous soothsayer of ancient Greece. The way Tiresias bcomes a prophet i a strange one. He decided to walk home through the woods one day, and he stumbled upon two giant serpants that were in the progress of having intercourse. He watched we a very long time until the huge snakes were aggravated with his intrusion of privacy, and the attacked him. Tiresias managed to kill the female snake, but the male snake had killed him. For this reason Zues turned Tiresias into a woman. Tiresias then as a woman went into the life of a prostitute. seven years later, when "she" had left **//work,//** she came across the same two montrous beast that were copulating. Tiresias again watched until the snakes attacked, but this time she had killed the male serpent, and was turned back into a man. At this same time Zues and Hera were fighting about whether of not a man or a woman had more pleasure during sex. To find this out for real Zues turned Tiresias back into a man, and asked him which sex recieved more pleasure during the act of intercourse. Tiresias agreed with Zues. Hera, as angry as she was, struck tiresias blind. Since Zues could not undo the act of another gods deity, he gave Tiresias the gift of Prophecy. Another account of this story says that Tiresis saw Athena naked, and she covered his eyes, thus rendering him blind. She felt bad for her actions, but she could not undo it. She then gave him the gift of prophecy as compensation.


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