The novel was inspired by a combination of the scientific and mystical experience of the author. It is about the importance and significance of man's interrelationships with animals and plants, as demonstrated in ancient Europe.
Through the mystical experience of the chief character in the novel, the mysteries of nature and the role and position of man in nature were revealed. The novel unveils how all life is interconnected. It reveals the validity of the concepts held by the ancients in their religion. With their mystical insight, they perceived all the creations on the earth and in the sky, including the sun as authentic symbols of the eternal power and divine nature of God. They perceived the fact that all life is interconnected and that no life exists in isolation, independent of the others, and that a change in one lifeform cannot be fully understood without considering the simultaneous changes in the others. This concept is held in the Buddhist religion. It is present in the theory by Gaia (the ancient Greek earth goddess), and in the Bible. The concept has been proven valid by modern science. Based on this idea, the ancients venerated nature and the sun. The evidence of this is seen in the ancient Greek cult of the earth goddess; in the ancient Egyptian cult of the sun god; in the Stonehenge in England and the Newgrange in Ireland and their connection with the solstice.
Based on these facts, the novel was set in the Prehistoric Age in Europe. It was the period when the ancient people lived in the land in which the research was carried out. It was also the period they practised their religion and when man's mystical insight was intact. The chief character in the novel is Ward, a farmer. Through his occupation and mystical experience, he revealed the mysteries of nature; the importance and significance of interrelationships of organisms, and the position and role of man in nature - that man is at nature's pinnacle, where he is designed to be, to sustain and be sustained.
