"Just give the channel islands a wide berth,
push on in your trim ship, sail night and day,
and the deathless god who guards and pulls you through
will send you a fresh fair wind from hard astern.
At your first landfall, Ithaca’s outer banks,
speed ship and shipmates round to the city side."
– Homer
The Odyssey, Book 15, lines 38-43. Acting as Telemachus’ guide, Athena tells him what course to take home from Lacedaemon to avoid the suitors’ ambush. The gods will provide him the winds needed to sail to Ithaca, she says.