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Odyssey

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OdysseyOdysseyThe nightThe nightReturnReturnHōkūleʻaHōkūleʻaITHACA, counted: 42, and 24ITHACA, counted: 42, and 24KosmosKosmos
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  • Cultural inheritance
  • Structural resemblance
  • Editorial parallel

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Odyssey: a return that reads the world

Placed beside Hōkūleʻa because both concern finding a way home by reading sea and sky. No historical transmission from Homer to Polynesia is claimed.

Interestingcheckedc. 8th century BCE

Is a star compass to a Homeric nostos a shared human problem, or only a later reader's juxtaposition?

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  1. Structural resemblance

    Calypso's instructions use sky marks for a homeward sail.

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  2. Cultural inheritance

    Nostos is the Greek office of return.

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  3. Editorial parallel

    Placed together as two readings of night and home, without a claimed historical path.

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  4. Linguistic descent

    The English spelling names the island of the nostos. The count is of that spelling.

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  5. Linguistic descent

    A Greek epic of return beside the Greek word for order.

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