Oidipous’s language suggests a meaning that he surely does not intend; the town is having intercourse with its own bane. Mention that the sightless seer sees the improper relations to which Oidipous’s own speech repeatedly points suggests that the seer’s special skill lies in his sensitivity to indications or signs laid into everyday phenomena found everywhere, from birds flying in the heavens above to creatures crawling on the earth’s surface below. These phenomena, including mortal speech, all signify a relationship between heavenly and earth-bound beings. To see this relationship requires the services of an agent, not one as Oidipous seems to believe, who acts a champion in battle, but one able to perceive relations and intersections between divine and mortal domains. [Gd] [Apcmu] [Dp] [Da]