THE LOTUS EATERS.

The Lotus Eaters were a race of people living on an island dominated by lotus plants. The lotus fruits and flowers were the primary food of the island and were narcotic, causing the people to sleep in peaceful apathy.
An apathetic individual has an absence of interest in or concern about emotional, social, spiritual, philosophical and/or physical life and the world, lacking a sense of purpose and meaning in their life. The challenge was irrelevant to them. It is a way to forget negative feelings.
The Lotus Tree is mentioned in Homer's Odyssey chapter IX, as bearing a fruit that caused a pleasant drowsiness, and which was said to be the only food of an island people called the Lotus Eaters. When they ate of the Lotus Tree they forgot their friends and homes and the desire to return to their native lands was lost in favor lo living in idleness.
Odysseus tells how adverse North Winds blew him and his men off course as they were rounding Cape Malea, a peninsula known for its treacherous weather, in the Southern most tip of the Peloponnesus in Greece, headed Westward for Ithaca: "I was driven by Foul Winds for a space of 9 days upon the sea, but on the 10th day we reached the Land of the Lotus-Eaters, who live on a food that comes from a kind of flower. Here we landed to take in fresh water, and our crew got their mid-day meal on the shore near the ships. When they had eaten and drunk I sent two of my company to see what manner of men the people of the place might be, and they had a third man under them. They started at once, and went about among the Lotus-Eaters, who did them no hurt, but gave them to eat of the Lotus, which was so delicious that those who ate it left off caring about home, and did not even want to go back and say what happened to them. Nevertheless, though they wept bitterly i forced them back to the ships and made them fast under the benches. Then I told the rest to go on board at once, so they took their places and smote the grey sea with their oars."
Herodotus, in the 5th century BC, was sure that the Lotus-Eaters still existed in his day in coastal Libya, the region West of the Nile. Its people were the ancestors of the modern Berbers, known in the Hellenistic period as Libyans.
The name Libya also appeared in the Hebrew language, written in the Bible as Lebahim and Lubim, indicating the ethnic population and the geographic territory as well.
Homer also names Libya, in Odyssey chapter IX. Menelaus had travelled there on his way home from Troy. It was a land of wonderful richness, where the lambs have horns as soon as they were born, where ewes lamb three times a year and no shepherd ever went short of milk, meat or cheese. Homer used the name in a geographical sense, while he also called its inhabitants "Lotus-Eaters."
In the narrative poem 'The Metamorphoses' by the Roman poet Ovid, chronicling the history of the world from its creation to the deification of Julius Caesar, mention the beautiful daughter of Neptune, the god of water and the sea. In order to flee the violent and lustful attention of the sexual impotent Pri-Apus, a rustic fertility god, protector of livestock, fruit plants, gardens and male genitalia, she invoked the assistance of the gods, who answered her prayers by turning her into a lotus tree.
Pri-Apus is described as the son of Aphrodite  by Dionysus, or father or son of Hermes, or the son of Zeus or Pan, depending on the source. According to the legend, Hera cursed him with impotence, ugliness and foul-mindedness while he was still in Aphrodite's womb, in revenge for the hero Paris having the temerity to judge Aphrodite more beautiful than Hera. The other gods refused to allow him to live on Mount Olympus and threw him to Earth, leaving him on a hillside. Then he joined Pan and the satyrs as a spirit of fertility and growth, though he was perennially frustrated by his impotence.
In the Scriptures in the Book of Job, there are two lines in the chapter 40, with the Hebrew word meaning the 'Lotus Tree' which appears nowhere else in the Scriptures. The Book addresses the theme of God's justice in the face of human suffering, or more simply, 'Why do the righteous suffer?' When God finally speaks He neither explains the reason for Job's suffering nor defends His justice. The first speech focuses on his role in maintaining Order in the universe: the list of things that God does and Job cannot do demonstrates divine wisdom because Order is the Heart of Wisdom. Job confesses his lack of wisdom, meaning his lack of understanding of the workings of the cosmos and of the ability to maintain it. The second speech concerns God's role in controlling Behemoth and Leviathan, two powerful primeval cosmic forces or entities, in either case demonstrating God's wisdom and power. In the concluding part of the narrative God restores and increases his prosperity, indicating that the divine policy of retributive Justice remains unchanged.
The name Behemoth has come to be used for an extremely large and powerful entity created together with the human being. It represents the dust from which the divine body of the first man was made of.
Then the sea-monster Leviathan, representing another powerful entity that govern the cosmic mind.
God mention both to demonstrate Job the futility of questioning God, who alone has created these beings and who alone can capture them.