angry
Neptune, and she works upon both the waters and the man.

"Ill-fated man," she cries, "why hast thou so angered Neptune?" Then
she changes her note: "Still he shall not destroy thee, however much he
desires." She bids him give up his raft to the anger of Neptune, throw
away his clinging wet garments of Calypso, and swim to the land of the
Phaeacians. Then she hands him the veil which he is to "bind beneath his
breast," and, when he has reached land, he is to throw it back into the
sea. A ritual of some kind, symbolic acts we feel these to be, though
their exact meaning may be doubtful. Ino, "the daughter of Cadmus," is
supposed to have been a Phoenician Goddess originally, and to have
been transferred to the Greek sailor, just as his navigation came to
him, partly at least, from the Phoenicians. If he girded himself with
the consecrated veil of Leucothea, the Goddess of the calm, Neptune
himself in wrath could not sink him.

Such was the faith required of Ulysses, but now comes the internal
counterstroke: his skepticism. "Ah me! what if some God is planning
another fraud against me, bidding me quit my raft!" The doubter refuses
to obey and clings to his raft. But the waves make short work of it
now, and Ulysses by sheer necessity has to do as the Goddess bade him;
"with hands outspread he plunged into the sea," the veil being
underneath him. When he quits his raft, and is seen in the water,
Neptune dismisses him from view with a parting execration, and Pallas
begins to help him, not openly, but indirectly.

In such manner the great doubter is getting toward shore, but even here
his doubts cease not. Steep jutting cliffs may not permit him to land,
the billows may dash him to death on the sharp shoaly rocks, or carry
him out again to sea, or some huge monster of the deep may snap him up
in its jaws; thus he is dashed about internally, on the billows of
doubt. But this grinding within is stopped by the grinding he gets
without; a mighty surge overwhelms him, he clutches a rock and saves
himself, but leaves flakes of flesh from his hands behind on the rock.
"He swam along the coast and eyed it well," he even reaches the mouth
of a soft-flowing river, where was a smooth beach and a shelter from
the wind. Here is the spot so long desired, here then he passes to an
act of faith, he prays to the river which becomes at once to the Greek
imagination a God.

3. This brings us to the third water deity, and we observe a