Odysseus and his men return to Circe’s island, where Circe warns him of the perils that await him. Specifically, Circe tells Odysseus how to avoid the dangers of the Sirens and Scylla and Charybdis. Odysseus is lashed or tied to the mast so that he can hear the Sirens’ song without succumbing to it, after he plugs his men’s ears with beeswax to prevent their hearing the bewitching voices. Odysseus and his men escape danger, but, passing through the straits of Scylla (six-headed monster) and Charybdis (the whirlpool monster), they lose six men to Scylla. Through all of this, Odysseus never tells his men of Circe’s last prophecy – that he will be the ONLY survivor of their long journey.