The Dead Father - the eponymous character, a godlike, incarnated image of Fatherhood, being hauled towards a redemptory destination.
Thomas - the archetype of the son, a leader of the expedition.
Julie - a co-leader of the expedition, a lover of Thomas, a female son .
Emma - another woman and another lover, in many respects, another Julie.
Edmund - one of the hauling children, a drunk.
The Wends - a numerous population of self-fathering indigenes, whose land the Dead Father and his sons are passing through. They are estranged to the notion of fatherhood and prejudiced against it.
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