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Head down into the desert and watch the scene when you arrive.  Now here's the 
first thing to note, from the statue if you run directly up and angle yourself 
slightly to the left you'll find a treasure chest containing a bunch of red 
robs beside a large pointed rock, don't worry if you can't find it, they're 
just red orbs.  Return to the desert entrance and head East of the statue.  
Follow the lower edge all the way along for quite a long way until you finally 
reach the lower right corner of the desert.  From here run directly Northwest 
and you should start to hear singing.  North of the grassy area where the 
singing gets louder is a large temple.  In front of this temple beside the 
multicoloured chest is the first siren, use magic primarily to destroy her as 
she is quite agile.  Once she is dead then only two more remain.  These aren't 
going to be easy to find, they're wandering around in the central area of the 
desert.  Since they move around the only real help I can offer is general 
areas.  If you find the stage-like section in the middle of the desert you 
should be able to find the first Siren (very) roughly South of there and the 
second (very) roughly North of there.  Both of them are accompanied by two 
minotaurs as well.  Once they are defeated the path opens in the East temple 
and you can go inside to save your game.  Open the two chests here and then 
head down the stairs beside the save point.  Down here you will find a 
conveyer belt, first of all the most important thing to note is to avoid those 
spikey things at the end.  What you need to do is tap the R2 button to open 
the door on the wall and pull out the large block (there's a chest behind it 
as well.)  Kick the block all the way left until it hits the wall and then use 
it so that you can jump high enough to reach the ledge.  From here head 
through the door and go out onto the steps.  Blow into the large horn for a 
scene and then follow the path, don't miss the chests and before you can blow 
on the next horn suddenly you are ambushed by quite a few sirens.  Even after 
defeating them more appear, about fifteen or so in all so it's quite a task.  
In fact this may be a good time to use your Rage of the Gods.  After the 
battle the horn reappears and you can blow into it to trigger a scene.