Athena now schemes.
How can she get Odysseus to meet Nausicaa, someone who can introduce Odysseus to her father, King Alcinous?
She lures Nasika and her maidens to the beach, where Odysseus is sleeping?
But when they see him, completely naked except for a few choice leaves, they all scatter, except for Nausicaa, who agrees to help a pleading Odysseus.
Because of the codes of hospitality, she agrees to get involved and help Odysseus out.
In Book 7, Odysseus once again calls on Athena for help.
She cloaks him in an obscuring mist, which allows him to do what Nausicaa had advised him to do, meet her mother, Queen Erete.
After sneaking into the palace, he throws himself at irritates feet, begging her for help.
Alcinous agrees to help Odysseus, though he does not yet know his identity.
Queen Erete is a little more suspicious, and that's when Odysseus tells them about how he met Nausicaa.
