Luke Caverns

Likely the island of Gerba off the coast of Tunisia. So this is Odysseus speaking here, but Homer writing. He says, they started at once and went out among the lotus eaters. Now this is his expedition around the Mediterranean trying to get back home to his family in Greece. So they started at once. They went around...

Likely the island of Gerba off the coast of Tunisia. So this is Odysseus speaking here, but Homer writing. He says, they started at once and went out among the lotus eaters. Now this is his expedition around the Mediterranean trying to get back home to his family in Greece. So they started at once. They went around...

Likely the island of Gerba off the coast of Tunisia. So this is Odysseus speaking here, but Homer writing. He says, they started at once and went out among the lotus eaters. Now this is his expedition around the Mediterranean trying to get back home to his family in Greece. So they started at once. They went around...

They went about among the lotus eaters who did them no hurt, but gave them to eat the lotus, which was so delicious that those who ate of it left off caring about home and did not even want to go back and say what happened to them, but were for staying and munching on lotus with the lotus eaters without thinking further of their return.

They went about among the lotus eaters who did them no hurt, but gave them to eat the lotus, which was so delicious that those who ate of it left off caring about home and did not even want to go back and say what happened to them, but were for staying and munching on lotus with the lotus eaters without thinking further of their return.

They went about among the lotus eaters who did them no hurt, but gave them to eat the lotus, which was so delicious that those who ate of it left off caring about home and did not even want to go back and say what happened to them, but were for staying and munching on lotus with the lotus eaters without thinking further of their return.

Nevertheless, though they wept bitterly, I forced them back into the ships and made them fast under the benches." Then I told the rest to go on board at once, lest any of them should taste of the lotus and leave off wanting to go home. So they took their places and smote the gray sea with their oars. So he visits the land of the lotus eaters. And basically what it's saying here is that...

Nevertheless, though they wept bitterly, I forced them back into the ships and made them fast under the benches." Then I told the rest to go on board at once, lest any of them should taste of the lotus and leave off wanting to go home. So they took their places and smote the gray sea with their oars. So he visits the land of the lotus eaters. And basically what it's saying here is that...

Nevertheless, though they wept bitterly, I forced them back into the ships and made them fast under the benches." Then I told the rest to go on board at once, lest any of them should taste of the lotus and leave off wanting to go home. So they took their places and smote the gray sea with their oars. So he visits the land of the lotus eaters. And basically what it's saying here is that...

Whoever was eating the fruit of the lotus, which is at the core of the lotus flower. Lotus flower does not grow in Tunisia. It grows on the Nile. Whoever was eating that enjoyed it so much that they just stopped caring about anything, right? It's kind of like the stigma that we have against like potheads. Like, you know, you smoke weed all the time. You're just not going to care about anything.

Whoever was eating the fruit of the lotus, which is at the core of the lotus flower. Lotus flower does not grow in Tunisia. It grows on the Nile. Whoever was eating that enjoyed it so much that they just stopped caring about anything, right? It's kind of like the stigma that we have against like potheads. Like, you know, you smoke weed all the time. You're just not going to care about anything.

Whoever was eating the fruit of the lotus, which is at the core of the lotus flower. Lotus flower does not grow in Tunisia. It grows on the Nile. Whoever was eating that enjoyed it so much that they just stopped caring about anything, right? It's kind of like the stigma that we have against like potheads. Like, you know, you smoke weed all the time. You're just not going to care about anything.

You start doing drugs, you're not going to care about anything, right? So, there's a lot of people who interpret this as, oh, okay, this is having some kind of, this is not just like they're eating zebra cakes and they're getting fat and just enjoying it and they don't want to go anywhere because it's so delicious.

You start doing drugs, you're not going to care about anything, right? So, there's a lot of people who interpret this as, oh, okay, this is having some kind of, this is not just like they're eating zebra cakes and they're getting fat and just enjoying it and they don't want to go anywhere because it's so delicious.

You start doing drugs, you're not going to care about anything, right? So, there's a lot of people who interpret this as, oh, okay, this is having some kind of, this is not just like they're eating zebra cakes and they're getting fat and just enjoying it and they don't want to go anywhere because it's so delicious.

This is having some kind of effect on them that is affecting their, you know, psychedelic state and making them not care about going home, which is the whole mission that they're on is trying to get back to, trying to get back to Western Greece.

This is having some kind of effect on them that is affecting their, you know, psychedelic state and making them not care about going home, which is the whole mission that they're on is trying to get back to, trying to get back to Western Greece.

This is having some kind of effect on them that is affecting their, you know, psychedelic state and making them not care about going home, which is the whole mission that they're on is trying to get back to, trying to get back to Western Greece.

And so I found this really interesting, and I thought, okay, is there any archaeological evidence that we can attest to that the lotus would actually be in Tunisia or on the coast of Tunisia? Well, yes, Phoenician trade routes. The Phoenicians around this period – this is the Late Bronze Age –

And so I found this really interesting, and I thought, okay, is there any archaeological evidence that we can attest to that the lotus would actually be in Tunisia or on the coast of Tunisia? Well, yes, Phoenician trade routes. The Phoenicians around this period – this is the Late Bronze Age –