"Hurry, friends, do as I say, let us all comply:
stop our convoys home for every castaway
chancing on our city! As for Poseidon,
sacrifice twelve bulls to the god at once –
the pick of the herds. Perhaps he’ll pity us,
pile no looming mountain ridge around our port."
– Homer
The Odyssey, Book 13, lines 203-208. King Alcinous calls for his people to make a sacrifice to Poseidon to appease the sea god. Poseidon has turned their ship to stone, and Alcinous wants to stop the god blocking their harbor’s access to the sea by piling a mountain around it, as forecast in a prophecy.