The Siren’s Song, Seduction

After a number of adventures Odysseus, a victorious warrior, reaches the land of Circe, the enchantress. After many adventures with her, she guides him on his journey home.
“Your next encounter will be with the Sirens, who bewitch everybody who approaches them. They sing a song of unearthly beauty, of infinite knowledge, and infinite understanding. Hear their song and you will be drawn off course. No man on earth can listen without longing to draw in closer to the source of it.
But there is no home - coming. For the man who sails near the Sirens unawares will be dashed on the rocks. The Siren’s voices cast a spell on him; he is seduced. The mouldering skeletons of men litter the shores as well as the wrecks of crafts like yours.”
“But there is a way to hear,” she says. “But you have to prepare. You have to prevent your crew from hearing so soften some bees-wax and plug up their ears with it. Then make them bind you hand and foot to the mast, and only then can you open your ears and listen to the Siren’s song as you sail on your way. If you struggle to free yourself, and beg your men to release you, driven by everything in you to the source of that song - and you will - tell your crew to bind you even more strongly. That is the only way through that tantalising, perilous stretch of sea”.
So, Odysseus followed the instructions and tied to the mast screamed out to his men, “Untie me you fools. We have to go to those beautiful women. They are calling me” But his men couldn’t hear him. “Untie me, un tie me you fools,” he begged
Odysseus nearly went mad through hearing the song, wanting to go to the source. But he and his men sailed past the Siren’s, and their song.

Retold by Myrna