The Odyssey's sky clues: Pleiades and Bootes, Venus at dawn, a new Moon, Hermes' journey, and 'the Sun has perished'

Od. 5.270-77 Odysseus sails at dusk watching the Pleiades and late-setting Bootes, the Bear on his left (Day -29). Od. 13.93-96 the Phaeacians reach Ithaca as the morning star rises (Day -5). Od. 14.161, 19.306: Odysseus will come as this Moon wanes and the next begins (Day 0 a new Moon). Od. 5 Hermes flies far west to Ogygia (Day -34). Od. 20.356-57 at the noon meal: 'the Sun has perished out of the sky'.