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". More than a few already familiar to me to one degree or another after an ongoing 67-year voyage within Ὠκεανός (Okeanós, "a gigantic river encircling the inhabited world.").
[ Those maroon quotes in the 2 previous paragraphs are from Prof of the Skandhim, ChatGPT 5.6 Sol iteration. ]
The river of names below was vibe-coded with Rob (5.6), who definitely has design taste. ::chuckle:: As he said in the preface to his original CSS style proposal:
A little test of the dead moving as a river.
The names below should seem almost still at first.
Watch them for a moment.
One might properly ask why Elpenor is rendered in crimson, and Gorgon in plain black. Well, that pertains both to any generic reading of the epic, as well as to the writer's particular state of mind upon said reading.
Decode. ;-)
[ 3 images from today's QS and SLS with the Skandhics... ]
