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When Poseidon makes the violent winds blow to delay Odysseus’ journey home, where does Odysseus end up? Describe the place and people involved.

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Odysseus ends up in Ogygia. Ogygia is a magical island where Calypso, the daughter of the Titan Atlas(the bearer of the sky), resides.

She is destined to be stuck there forever, with the Fates sending male heroes to wash up on her beach for her to help. The Titaness cannot help but fall in love with these heroes, but they always had to leave, whether it was to save the world or go back to their families. Calypso is described as a beautiful woman with teal, almond-shaped eyes and caramel-brown hair that is kept in a braid, though definitions vary, one variation saying that she has gray eyes.

Odysseus fell in love with her, and stayed on Ogygia for ten years, until he realized that he needed to leave and return to his wife and son. A magical raft came and carried him back home.

Ogygia is a wonderful place, with amazing gardens filled with all kinds of flowers like moon lace. There are invisible servants that provide you with anything. Calypso lives in a small cave and eats outdoors with a wooden table. Time passes differently on Ogygia. It could've felt like two days, when in reality it had been three weeks in the mortal world.

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