These stars Calypso the beautiful Nymph had bidden him to keep on the left hand as he sailed over the sea.
-The Odyssey, Book V
I wonder if it was the Nymph of Kit Kat, Cairo’s erstwhile red light district, who told KhairAllah to keep al-Jady, the North Star, always on his left cheek. Lane gives the Form II verb of the root J-D-Y as, To Saddle a Camel, almost as in, He Saddled Polaris. And he did, but stopped short of Kit Kat, at the Imbaba camel market, from where he made his way home to Um Badr, his own Ithaca, crossing the wine dark sand sea by rail and lorry.