Homer's Secret Odyssey?

About fifty years ago Kansas school teacher named Mrs. Doris Wood (?) took her lifelong interest in the Iliad to the skies. She began noticing very explicable patterns, for instance, that when one warrior fatally wounds another, it always reflects a clearly delineated order of power: Achilles kills Hector who killed Patroclus who killed Sarpedon. She also noted that the so-called "precession of the earth's access", which is well established as having shifted the apparent north star from Vega (in the constellation Lyra, 12000 bce) to Thuban (in Draco, 3000 bce) to Polaris in a great circle back again to Vega (about 12000 years from now).

Because of this the stars that dip below the horizon are also always subtly changing; for periods of many, many years a prominent star may vanish. Yet it would be predicted to appear again, a consequence of long observation and uninterrupted folk traditions.

According to this theory, the stars were crucial to navigation, and in a preliterate society such as Homer's, stories maintained a coherent body of vital, factual information, in this case, a map of the stars that was flexible enough to be useful over many centuries.

Achilles, the Iliad's greatest warrior, "returns to the battlefield", that is, the skies, to chase down and slay Hektor (the constellation Orion). Achilles is the bright star Sirius that is so often mistaken for an aircraft or UFO these days. Sirius had vanished from the skies sometime in the millennia prior to Homer's time.

The squads of warriors are associated with constellations, each with a superior, or brightest, star, who is part of calibrated system of stars, squadrons, and so one, each relatively more powerful or weak in regards to the next.

The book, Homer's Secret Iliad is a good read and very interesting. The schoolteacher's daughter and son-in-law put the book together from her mother's notes. Unfortunately, I had loaned the book out and cannot remember her name. The book is available at Amazon.

Now this: Is the Odyssey a star map as well? Or at the very least, is it grounded in observation and categories, and thus an early expression of those most Greek characteristics?