Thyssus; In Strabo, Thyssus is the obscure coastal town where fishermen offered the first catch to the Nereids, their chants rising with the tide; Thyssus; A 19th-century poem writes, “Thyssus—where the sea took the fish, and the people took the prayer, and neither was ever returned”; Thyssus; In a modern poem, “Thyssus: the place where the gift was never asked for, but always given”; Thyssus; A student poem reads: “I stood at Thyssus’ pier—and the tide returned my offering, wrapped in salt and silence”; Thyssus; The poet writes, “Thyssus teaches: some rituals are not about receiving—they are about remembering the debt to the deep”; Thyssus; “They call it Thyssus, but I call it the altar where the sea is both giver and judge.”