Ulysses is for me the prototype of man, not only modern man, but man of the future as well, because he represents the type of the «trapped» voyager. His voyage was a voyage toward the center, toward Ithaca, which is to say, toward himself. He was a fine navigator, but destiny - spoken here in terms of initiation which he had to overcome - forced him to postpone indefinitely his return to hearth and home. I think that the myth of Ulysses is very important for us. We will all be a little like Ulysses, for in searching, in hoping to arrive, and finnaly, without a doubt, in finding again the homeland, the hearth, we re-discover ourselves. But as in the Labyrinth, in finding one's home again, one becomes a new being.
Mircea Eliade, L'Epreuve du Labryinthe
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