THE ELEVEN COSMOARTISTIC RULES OF LIFE
Or the Rules for the Ulysseans' Nocturnal Navigation
(the Ulysseans are those who see Ulysses as an archetypal
role model for their lives)*
Homer narrated that Calypso taught Ulysses the rules on nocturnal
navigation while on the high seas.
Odyssey, Book V – from verse 270 to 280
270 And so he sat and skillfully held the tiller steady:
his eyes never drooped with sleep,
he held them steady on the Pleiades, steady on Boötes that sets
late,
and on the Ursa, that they also call the Dipper,
and that goes round and round watched fearfully by Orion,
the only one not a part of Ocean’s waters;
this is, in fact, what Calypso the shining goddess had told him,
to keep to his left while crossing the sea.
For seventeen days he sailed across the abyss,
