When Circe sent Odysseus and his crew to the Land of the Dead, Odysseus hopes to seek to learn of his destiny. Odysseus then goes to the River of Ocean and makes sacrifices , as Circe told him to do, so as to attract the attention of the souls. The first soul to appear to him is the soul of the crew member who they had lost on the island of Aeaea, whom pleads Odysseus to go back and give him a proper burial. The next soul that appears to him is Tiresias, the blind prophet. He tells Odysseus that Poseidon is punishing the Achaens for blinding his son Polyphemus. He tells Odysseus' fate, that he will return home reclaim his palace and wife from the contemptible suitors who have taken over his home.