Odysseus urges his exhausted crew to bypass Thrinakia, the island of the sun god, Helios. But the men insist on landing. Odysseus makes them swear not to touch the god's cattle.
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The sun god Helios angrily asked Zeus and the other gods to punish Odysseus's crew for killing his cattle, and Zeus complied. Strange things began to happen to the cattle that had been killed, they bellowed and moved.
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