Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within. Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose. Not when they are escaping to some wild west. The most unfree souls go west, and shout of freedom.
Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom.
The shout is a rattling of chains, always was. The moment you can do just what you like, there is nothing you care about doing. Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description. The zodiac is well worth flirting with. His interest lay in the study of the stars as myth and metaphor.