Another interesting passage in the Odyssey is the visit to the House of Hades or the Underworld.
Our hero, on the advice of Circe, the sorceress, goes to the Underworld with the intention of meeting with Tiresias, a seer, who knows the way home for Odysseus. Circe mentions that he needs to summon the dead through a ritual. This, by itself, is already interesting. He uses a very specific ritual of milk, honey, wine, barley, blood from victims and prayer to summon them.
After the initial phase of the ritual is completed, the dead appear. Odysseus chats with Tiresias, but also observes and talks with a host of other interesting characters. All of which have reasons for being in the land of the dead. They all have regrets, grudges, unfinished business while living or hold emotions that make this place essentially a purgatory.
After talking with Tiresias, he observes what is called the "catalog of heroines," famous women sent by Persephone, and recounts for the audience what he knows about them. What is interesting is that almost all of them had an affair with either Zeus or Poseidon and had children by them. Often, these gods will disguise themselves as something else, effectively shapeshifting their form to seduce these women.
Among these women is Leda, Helen's mother. As per Laura's research and the Cassiopaeans, we find that Helen is Nefertiti, wife of Pharaoh Akhenaten. And according to the Cassiopaeans, the strange shape of her skull is a genetic tweak by 4D STS, related to the nephilim. So this begs the question if the story of Leda and the other women is a reference to intervention and genetic manipulation by 4D STS. Almost all of these women were of royal descent and had positions of influence and power! I wonder why are they here, in the Underworld.
Going forward, our hero also talks with King Agamemnon, Ajax and Achilles, his buddies from the war of Troy. Again, all of them had reasons to be there. We find that Agamemnon was betrayed by his wife and brutally murdered by his wife's lover upon his return. Ajax didn't want to talk to our hero over differences during the war, and Achilles was lamenting living among the dead after attaining great glory.
Now, what is interesting is that there were prophesies of the death of Achilles in the Iliad, but no mention on how he was actually killed. But digging a bit deeper, we find that there is a lesson to be learned with his story.
The story of the Iliad focuses on the reluctance of Achilles to fight with the Acheans. He was disrespected by Agamemnon when he took Briseis, a woman awarded to Achilles as war prize. Achilles refused to take arms and the Acheans struggled with the Troyans. In desperation, Patroclus, Achilles' close friend, takes up his armor and goes fighting with the Myrmidons, Achilles' clan.
Patroclus is killed by Hector, provoking the rage of Achilles prompting his return to the war. Achilles kills Hector, keeps his body and the Iliad ends with the retrieval of his son's body by King Priam.
What we see here is that Achilles rejected his duty, and because of this he brought tragedy upon himself and those close to him. He lost his friend and Homer brings home the lesson by placing him in the land of the dead, though he doesn't seem to know why he's there, as if he didn't learn his lesson yet.
Comparing this with the story of the Mahabharata, which the C's have mentioned reflects the same events, we find a similar situation with the hero in that epic, Arjuna.
Arjuna had a moment of self-doubt before the Kurukshetra War. He was fighting his own kin after all. His duty was to lead his army but was doubtful, considering not fighting at all and leaving his army high and dry. He has a long philosophical conversation with Krishna (the assisting god, just like Athena was for the Acheans) and comes to the realization that his duty is the right action (Dharma).
The conversation between Arjuna and Krishna is an integral part of the Bhagavad Gita (part of the Mahabharata), and had great philosophical and religious influence around India. And in this sense the Iliad and the Odyssey served the same purpose. Perhaps a way to shape behavior and teach lessons trying to prevent catastrophes from the gods in the sky.