Winnowing Oar
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The Winnowing Oar (athereloigon) is an object that appears in Homer's Odyssey. In the epic, Odysseus is instructed by a Tiresias to take an oar from his ship and to walk inland until he finds a "land that knows nothing of the sea", where the oar would be mistaken for a winnowing fan. At this point, he is to offer a sacrifice to Poseidon, and then at last his journeys would be over.
The artist Conrad Shawcross created a piece of work entitled Winnowing Oar, based on the object. It is exhibited in the National Maritime Museum as a historic painting.
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