The protagonist, who is making the journey, is not any particular man from any culture, place or history. He is the universal man, of whom all human beings are parts. The concept of this man is very similar to the concept of the “whole man” as in the Hegelian philosophy.  He, like James Joyce’s Ulysses, is perpetually repeating the wanderings of Odysseus, who is reincarnated in the living man. He is the mythical archetype, who internally reincarnates within each person, and bears the spirit of eternal Odysseus beyond the external characteristics of any individual culture. Each living person is a copy of the one or many who have already lived as others and repeats the journey of the previous characters who have lived before in history. Like Joyce’s Bloom, beneath the superficialities of the individual personalities, each person is a part of the mythical archetype rather than an individual.

As Nietzsche’s Zarathustra exclaimed, every existence is entangled in an eternal recurrence of the one that has existed before as a part of the eternal wanderer. Like Odysseus every person, as a part of the mythical man,  is striving to escape the wheel turning between the shore of the islands where life burgeon in opulence  driven by the power of the sun and the world of the dead sinking in night. In this eternal recurrence there is storm and wind over the sea bringing ceaseless turmoil of history where the universal wanderer appears and disappears wearing the masks of innumerable individual characters.

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