If one thinks about the topic of perpetual change and metamorphosis, the notions of _sublime love_ woven through the entire story and it's encounters, should Vasudeva be interpreted as an emanation of Krishna/Vishnu ? ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_B4Z1PB97KY.html Hesse may not have been suficiently familiar with Hindu tradition in order to make that interpretation, himself - but was prone to such association, having been a seminarist at the Protestant Maulbronn Monastery.
