νέκυια

Nekyia or, Book 11 in Homer's The Odyssey ... "a rite of calling up or consulting the dead — necromancy in the older, literal sense of the word." These are the names of people, gods, places, in the book titled in Emily Wilson's 21st century translation of the epic, "The Dead". Quite a few already familiar to me after a 66-year voyage within Ὠκεανός (Okeanós, "a gigantic river encircling the inhabited world." [ These quotes in the 2 previous paragraphs are from Prof of the Skandhim, ChatGPT 5.2 Sol iteration. ] [ in progress... ]