They would lure nearby sailors to their deaths using their music and captivating voices. «To give in to the nostalgic song of the Sirens is to rot on their shores» (Course Manual, 40). Ulysses meets the Sirens on his journey home, but fortunately escapes their trap. Odysseus, who was very curious and wanted to hear what the Sirens had to say, ordered his crew to put beeswax in their ears so that they would not be attracted by their voices. His crew would also tie Odysseus to the mast of the ship, so that he would not fall into their trap. This was important to Odysseus because it would mean that if he survived the sirens' voices and made it out alive, he could continue his journey home. The Homeric Hymns stated that the Sirens would die if they failed to capture their prey and since no one came out alive, the Sirens continued to live, at least until they met Odysseus. The Sirens here were just another obstacle that Odysseus had encountered in his truck home and had to overcome. Even though he never made his journey home again, he posed the question of whether they would make it out of there alive. Odysseus knew full well that being tied to the mast might not work out as he would have liked and he knew that there had always been the possibility of escaping the trap and facing death, but there had always been a higher power.