"The gods hid me themselves –
it’s light work for them – and brought me here,
the homestead of a man who knows the world.
So it seems to be my lot that I’ll live on."
– Homer
The Odyssey, Book 14, lines 404-407. Odysseus invents a tale of how he was stripped, dressed in filthy rags and tied up by the crew of a ship he was traveling on. The gods help him escape, hide him from the crew and bring him to the swineherd Eumaeus’ house.