return home

• homecomingReturning to one's origin
• arrivalAct of reaching destination
• reunionGathering after separation
• journeyTravel from place to place
• nostalgiaLonging for the past

doorstep · familiar · threshold · welcome · embrace · roots · belonging · hearth · refuge · sanctuary · prodigal · native · memories · longing · wanderer · destination · nest · shelter

• BuddhaSiddhartha, Gautama, Buddha, enlightenment, bodhi
• heroic taleshero's journey, epic poem, saga, odyssey, quest
• story tropesquest, hero's journey, plot twist, chosen one, red herring
• OdysseyOdysseus, Penelope, Telemachus, Ithaca, Homer
• heroic questquest, odyssey, call to adventure, hero's journey, departure
• literary themesheroism, hero's journey, ennui, social realism, morals