Odysseus is an asteroid in the list of Martha Lang-Wescott. Odysseus is asteroid #1143, also known as 1930 BH, and shouldn’t be too relevant because it is a Greek camp Jupiter trojan. Odysseus was discovered by Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth.

Odysseus is named after the famous Greek hero, who took part in the Trojan War and then needed ten years to find his way home. Our time knows this only because of Homér. The story has twenty-four chapters. Many researchers tried to find Odysseus’ route, but the researchers disagree with each other. This isn’t surprising and there’s a reason for it.

Odysseus’ journey is reported in twenty-four chapters, but it is disputed how many of them are original and how many have been added later. Odysseus adventure in his homeland after the journey are commonly believed to have been added later. Odysseus tells there also some invented adventures. So it is unclear of how many adventures the journey of Odysseus consisted. But researchers of previous centuries had already agreed that Odysseus’ journey consisted of twelve adventures, that show a certain symmetry, and the whole story resembles stories from ancient India and Babylon and was probably inspired by them. When Odysseus has at the end to prove his identity, he does this with a trick shot through the holes of twelve axe-heads. The number of twelve axe-heads shall probably confirm that Odysseus went indeed through twelve adventures. Why is this important? Of course because the number twelve is in mythology always suspicious to represent the zodiac!

Researchers are unable to find Odysseus’ exact route in the sea because the whole Odyssey describes a journey through the sky along the zodiac! The Odyssey isn’t the only part of the Greek mythology describing the zodiac. It is a recurring topic. The twelve heroic deeds of Heracles are a younger description and the journey of Jason and the Argonauts are an older description.

Odysseus represents a solar hero. This kind of hero serves to describe the stars along the zodiac. The astrological force has hence to be quite unspecific. It could only become relevant in relation to other astrological forces, preferably representatives of other characters in the same tale.