The irony of explosion
The inciting incident of this story is a drastic explosion that kills many of the town's men. The only survivor is Giovanni Bruno who survives in a comatose state. He is saved by fate from death, and when he awakes, there is a community of people who want to set up a religion in his honor. The irony of the explosion is that it is unexpected and random, and by nothing in Bruno's own doing, the event makes him a god in the eyes of his neighbors.
The stand-alone irony
In a sense, one might argue that the real impetus for the formation of the religious cult wasn't Bruno's survival—it was all the people dying who didn't survive. That left families distraught, and the cult is a way the community is rallying to support one another by celebrating the sole survivor as a kind of living testament. They look up to him because he is a symbol of the men who have died.
The irony of Domiron
Domiron is like a petty archetypal god in Eleanor's consciousness. Perhaps the archetypal voice is a real manifestation of her instinctual brain programming, but still, she can be said to be a spiritualist regardless. The ironic nature of Domiron's influence is perplexing, but the greater irony is Domiron's true identity. In reality Eleanor's own mind is Domiron. She is both autonomous and enslaved.
The irony of cult worship
If they're just going to worship any old survivor, why not worship each other too? The irony of the Brunist cult is that they prefer a regular old guy as their divine Messiah, more or less against his will. But, by placing him on a pedestal, they forget to elevate their own experience of life. If Bruno is a god for being alive, then wouldn't they also be gods? This shows that cult worship is inherently ironic.
The ironic synchronicity of the tale
Ironically, the story coincides nicely with a normal resurrection, divinization myth. Since Christianity is the most common version of that tale in the West, Jesus makes a nice comparison for this. Like Jesus, Bruno is just a regular old manual laborer. Just like Jesus, Bruno works with his hands. In the way Jesus survives literal death, Bruno survives death too, "resurrecting" not from literal death, but from a coma. Still, one can see that if there is something instinctual about human religion, than perhaps the Brunists were noticing some sort of pattern that alerted them to human divinity.
