Teiresias, the ancient blind Theban prophet enters, led by a boy. He describes the disgusting things caused by the unburied body out on the plain - the gods refuse to accept his sacrifices, polluted as they are by the birds who have been contaminated by the corpse. It was wrong to pursue hatred beyond the grave. Creon reacts with fury - forcing Teiresias to reveal how he will be forced to pay for the blood of Polyneices with the blood of his son, in punishment for not burying the dead, while burying the living.