The book about the narrative Delta tradition has a dual target audience: first, the layman who likes to read unique fairy tales that – according to the theory in this book – stem from Central and Eastern European warrior clans from the Bronze Age. For them, there are the anger of Achilleus, the abduction of Helen, and the compassion of Achilleus, stripped of the overloaded presence of Greek oral traditions. Second, the scientist who wants to distinguish the narrative Delta tradition from other oral traditions in Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey by means of 158 Delta characteristics. The scientist and the interested layman also learn how Odysseus has grown over the centuries from a herald – the Bronze Age diplomat – to the cunning hero who endures the most dangerous adventures on his return journey to Ithaka.
Like the European Beta tradition, the narrative Delta tradition stems from a society of clans fighting each other to the death on the battlefield. They burn their dead, place the remains in urns, and cast burial mounds above them. Their strongholds are surrounded by ramparts of wood and earth and a ditch. All this points in the direction of proto-Celtic Europe of the Bronze Age, in which the funeral customs of the Urnfield culture merge with those of the Tumulus culture. Chariots and horses sacrificed on the funeral pyre point in the direction of the nomads in Eastern Europe, Russia, and Central Asia.
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