
	Where results make sense

Topic: Trickster myth

Related Topics

Myth

Greek mythology

Hephaestos

Hermes

Hermes Trismegistus

Q (Star Trek)

Captain Jack Sparrow

Gothos

Trelane

Seleucid Empire

Brazilian Folklore

List of Greek mythological characters

In the News (Tue 15 Dec 09)

Northern Trust

Marvin Harrison

Peter Chernin

Gary Locke

Match Play

Penelope Cruz

Mickey Rourke

AR Rahman

Danny Boyle

Hugh Jackman

	Myth 3
		The Trickster myth is found in clearly recognizable form among the simplest aboriginal tribes and among the complex.
		Myth is a vehicle of truth, and its historical, literal accuracy is often irrelevant.
		Whether tricksters are seen as good guys, clowns or bad guys, they set events in motion with their mischief, and through those events, heroes are born and reborn.
	webpages.charter.net /crowson/myth3.htm (1883 words)

	Trickster - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the study of mythology, folklore and religion, a trickster is a god, goddess, spirit, human hero or anthropomorphic animal who breaks the rules of the gods or nature, sometimes maliciously (for example, Loki) but usually with ultimately positive effects.
		Tricksters can be cunning or foolish or both; they are often very funny even when considered sacred or performing important cultural tasks.
		The Trickster, a supervillain in the DC Universe who has been both an ally and an enemy of The Flash.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Trickster_myth (408 words)

	Myth - Free Encyclopedia of Thelema
		A myth is often thought to be a lesson in story form which has deep explanatory or symbolic resonance for preliterate cultures, who preserve and cherish the wisdom of their elders through oral traditions by the use of skilled story tellers.
		In sociology, however, myths may be historical or fictional without altering its nature as myth, because the power of myth lies in the meaning and broader truth it conveys, rather than the historicity of the story.
		The term "myth" is sometimes used pejoratively in reference to common beliefs of a culture or for the beliefs of a religion to imply that the story is both fanciful and fictional.
	www.egnu.org /thelema/Myth (1284 words)

	Myth Other theories External links sociology structural analysis Trickster myth gods Caillois Bible Mythology Mythical ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		A myth is often thought to be a lesson in story form which has deep explanatory or symbolic resonance for preliterate cultures, who preserve and cherish the wisdom of their elders through oral traditions by the use of skilled story tellers.
		In sociology, however, a myth may be historical or fictional without altering its nature as myth, because the power of myth lies in the meaning and broader truth it conveys, rather than the historicity of the story.
		The term "myth" is sometimes used pejoratively in reference to common beliefs of a culture or for the beliefs of a religion to imply that the story is both fanciful and fictional.
	en.powerwissen.com /ignj4Z%2BTAV6lScOy5xJtiA%3D%3D_Myth.html (1353 words)

	LeMasters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Trickster is most commonly used by critics to distinguish themselves from the previous generation of scholars.
		His use of the Trickster (in a lecture that was to become the “Psychology” chapter in Radin’s book), is an instance of precisely that: appealing to an audience through the employ of their own localized manner of discourse, their own “final vocabularies.”
		Thompson’s discussion of the Trickster Cycle (in his Folklore) is wildly uneven and problematic, suggesting (at least) that he was unsure about whether Trickster was a kind of myth, the name of a myth, the name of a mythic figure, or the translated name of a mythic figure.
	www.colophon.org /dr_spinks.htm (2704 words)

	Song:
		In psychological terms, the trickster may be said to serve as a sort of scapegoat figure onto which are projected simultaneously the fears, failures, and unattained ideals of the source culture.
		The characteristic trickster tale is in the form of a picaresque adventure: the trickster was "going along"; he encountered a situation to which he responded by knavery or stupidity; he met a violent or ludicrous end; and then the next incident is told.
		The trickster's victim is usually earnest, hardworking, and slow-witted and soon yields to the smooth arguments and attractive promises of his opponent.
	www.geocities.com /aman0_jyaku/Song-Trickster.htm (4400 words)

	Theories on the North American Trickster
		Trickster stories dealing with creation, transformation and connections with supernatural astral powers were classified as "mythological stories." It is for instance characteristic that Glooskap who is only to a small extent a trickster belongs here to mythology, together with such beings as Manabozho and Raven.
		To Ricketts, the trickster is "a myth being, a person of the mythical age, the primordial era" (ibid:343).
		Makarius comments, "The contradiction between the individual and asocial character of the violation of taboo, and its perpetration by the trickster for the benefit of society as a whole, is the essence of the trickster myth" (Makarius 1973b:668).
	www.angelfire.com /realm/bodhisattva/trickster.html (6582 words)

	Tricksters
		Tricksters are archetypal, almost always male, characters who appear in the myths of many different cultures.
		Tricksters cross lines, breaking or blurring connections and distinctions between "right and wrong, sacred and profane, clean and dirty, male and female, young and old, living and dead" (Hyde 7).
		Trickster represents a certain flexibility of mind and spirit, a willingness to defy authority and invent clever solutions that keeps cultures (and stories) from becoming too stagnant.
	faculty.gvsu.edu /websterm/Tricksters.htm (871 words)

	Trickster References Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Books marked as important in the methodology of trickster studies are designated as such based on the considerations of William J.
		The myth of the trickster: The necessary breaker of taboos.
		The trickster in West Africa: A study of mythic irony and sacred delight.
	members.aol.com /pmichaels/glorantha/tricksref.html (1767 words)

	Native American Trickster Tales
		The Trickster Cycle--Dieterle's retelling of the tales Paul Radin identified as composing a "trickster cycle."
		Trickster [untitled]--nice discussion of tricksters, summarizing Radin's and Jung's views and modern Native American literature.
		Trickster at the Crossroads: West Africa's God of Messages, Sex and Deceit--Davis' article on the trickster of the Orishas.
	members.cox.net /academia/coyote.html (5442 words)

	Trickster : Trickster myth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		In the study of mythology and religion, a trickster is a god, goddess, spirit or human who breaks the rules of the gods or nature, sometimes maliciously (Loki) but usually with ultimately positive effects.
		In many cultures, particularly Native American, the trickster and the culture hero are combined.
		In many North American Indian mythologies, the coyote spirit stole fire from the gods (or stars or sun) and is more of a trickster than a culture hero.
	www.termsdefined.net /tr/trickster-myth.html (425 words)

	Trickster Makes This World
		Trickster starts out hungry, but before long he is master of the kind of creative deception that, according to a long tradition, is a prerequisite of art.
		In the invention of traps, trickster is a technician of appetite and a technician of instinct.
		Perhaps, then, another force behind trickster's cunning is the desire to remove himself from the eating game altogether, or at least see how far out he can get and still feed his belly (for if he were to stop eating entirely he would no longer be trickster).
	partners.nytimes.com /books/first/h/hyde-trickster.html (2110 words)

	Background Papers
		An invocation of Trickster was initiated as a possible means of utilizing, demonstrating and testing his attributes as a change agent.
		The Trickster of myth appears within cultures and across cultures as the embodiment of the unexpected.
		There are a plethora of myths such as these which could be examined individually to reveal their inner workings and clarify the raison d'être of beliefs, customs and institutions as well as certain operational modes which have remained constant over many years, but this is beyond the scope of this paper.
	www.pch.gc.ca /special/dcforum/info-bg/03_e.cfm (1721 words)

	Deconstructing Lefty: The trickster meets Oedipus
		When the trickster is a character in the story, the meaning communicated is in terms of a story of human religious and cultural history, “and particularly in relation to the origin” (1993: 194).
		Myths in which the trickster is narrator are “open-ended.” The trickster can be this or that, this and that.
		Trickster myths in which the trickster is a character are representations; they are dualistic, usually differentiating the “origin” from the present, and they reify both the origin and modernity.
	cbae.nmsu.edu /~dboje/wtwo/AlexisDeconVegas.html (4650 words)

	Trickster Makes This World, by Lewis Hyde
		"I not only want to describe the imagination figured in the trickster myth, I want to argue a paradox that the myth asserts: that the origins, liveliness, and durability of cultures require that there be space for figures whose function is to uncover and disrupt the very things the cultures are based on." p.
		It makes a lot of sense that the trickster myth would be identified with dynamic quality - Hyde also identifies the trickster as being not only a boundary crosser, but often a boundary-creator.
		Or in Hyde's terms, the trickster and the first lie - or speaking of a child, "...she is in that world as an independent creator, setting out to make meaning on her own terms, not subject to the prohibitions that preceded her..." p.
	www.nehrlich.com /book/trickster.html (1561 words)

	tRicKstEr (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		"Trickster" is an important (often sacred) figure in the folklore of numerous cultures all around the world: a paradoxical creature who is both very clever and very foolish, a culture hero and destructive influence -- often at one and the same time.
		Trickster is a powerful presence in the legends of most Native American tribes, a divine fool or sacred clown who generally takes one of the following forms: Raven, Rabbit, Hare, Spider, Bluejay, Mink or Coyote.
		In Chinese legends, foxes can attain magical powers in one of two ways: by long years of arduous study (after which they are rewarded with the power to become human); or by posing as a human man or woman, seducing a member of the opposite sex, then stealing his or her life-force.
	www.coyotemadonna.com /coyotemadonna/CM2k/trickster/trickstertales.htm (2938 words)

	On Lewis Hyde's TRICKSTER MAKES THIS WORLD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The first and most basic of these traps is the "trap of appetite," from which "the trickster myth derives creative intelligence." "Trickster starts out hungry, but before long he is master of the kind of creative deception that, according to a long tradition, is a prerequisite of art." Hyde thinks that "trickster stories...
		Throughout his analysis, Hyde ignores the comic element in trickster tales (it is partly for this reason that he tracks the trickster spirit in such unexpected figures such as Frederick Douglass, whose many virtues do not include a strong element of humor).
		While the mythological Trickster lives in a world of gods, where shamelessness is allowed him, these writers are caught between the ordinary social world and the mythic world of their art; thus they are caught between shame, which causes one to be silent, and shamelessness, which encourages one to speak.
	www.rightreading.com /writing/hyde.htm (3345 words)

	The Objectivist Hero Cycle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		In that essay, I connect the Trickster with the Hero archetype, claiming that the Trickster myth represents the first stage of the hero cycle.
		But her version of the hero myth does not include the individual's re-integration into the community that is a hallmark of the classical monomyth; instead, the hero maintains his separateness.
		And it is possible that Rand absorbed a hidden element of fascism from the literature of her adopted country, hidden even from the storytellers themselves.
	jungianobjectivism.tripod.com /id9.html (235 words)

	"Wile E. Coyote" by Terri Windling (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		"Trickster" is an important (often sacred) figure in the folklore of numerous cultures all around the world: a paradoxical creature who is both very clever and very foolish, a culture hero and destructive influence — often at one and the same time.
		Trickster is a powerful presence in the legends of most Native American tribes, a divine fool or sacred clown who generally takes one of the following forms: Raven, Rabbit, Hare, Spider, Bluejay, Mink or Coyote.
		In Chinese legends, foxes can attain magical powers in one of two ways: by long years of arduous study (after which they are rewarded with the power to become human); or by posing as a human man or woman, seducing a member of the opposite sex, then stealing his or her life-force.
	www.endicott-studio.com /rdrm/fortrck.html (2978 words)

	"Mind: Trickster, Transformer" by Blair A. Moffett
		Trickster is at one and the same time creator and destroyer, giver and negator, he who dupes others and who is always duped himself.
		Wherever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography, history, or science, it is killed.
		Trickster's hero qualities were present, then, from the very beginning of his career.
	www.theosophy-nw.org /theosnw/world/america/my-moff2.htm (1983 words)

	TAR BABY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The tar baby’s oral history is linked to the history of the rabbit trickster tales in which a rabbit or hare plays the trickster while he is often tricked by the Fox or Wolf.
		These tales were a "prominent subtype" of the classic trickster tale as they provided comic relief through the characters of the wily slave and his master; though they deviated from the animal archetypes, their message was much the same.
		What Morrison does with these myths and folk tales is to redefine, re-image, remythologize the stories to suit her purpose.
	kpearson.faculty.tcnj.edu /Dictionary/tar_baby.htm (1454 words)

	Tons-o-Trickster!
		The purpose of this unit is to contribute to the students' understanding of the coyote and to expose students to the trickster tale genre of literature.
		Myth Mappers is an online children's game that teaches about mythology by pitting the adventurers against the Trickster.
		The Riddle of the Trickster is a cross-cultural overview of the trickster archetype.
	members.aol.com /pmichaels/glorantha/foolsparadise.html (2425 words)

	Thunderbird and Trickster
		Indian myth was always fluid, and grounded in the present, which is what might be expected of societies which largely lacked static, written traditions.
		The fact that Thunderbird sometimes appears as something that terrorizes and plagues Indians, and sometimes as their protector and liberator (in some myths, he was once an Indian himself) is said to reflect the way thunderstorms and violent weather are seen by Plains people.
		Iktomi and other tricksters seem to be at the constant mercy of their desires; yet their blind luck always seems to protect them from the consequences of their missteps.
	www.fiu.edu /~mizrachs/thunderbird-and-trickster.html (4030 words)

	98.02.04: Three African Trickster Myths/Tales ñ Primary Style
		Myths are the earliest form of literature which, of course, began as an oral literature.
		Myth is the “glue” that holds societies together; it is the basis of identity for communities, tribes, and nations.
		Myths were the way in which all cultures, before the advent of modern science, sought to explain the origin of the world and of human beings’ relationship to it.
	www.yale.edu /ynhti/curriculum/units/1998/2/98.02.04.x.html (7648 words)

	Mythic Imagination Institute
		In the study of folklore, religion, and myth Trickster is "a god, goddess, spirit, human hero or anthropomorphic animal who plays pranks or otherwise disobeys normal rules and norms of behaviour."
		Trickster is dark and dangerous and likeable, if not trustworthy -- entirely true to his ancient, archetypal heritage.
		Male or female, Trickster is clever, mischievous, and cunning, surviving the dangers and challenges of the world by wit and wisdom.
	mythicjourneys.org /newsletter_oct06_trickster.html (467 words)

	Trickster Selected Bibliography
		"Intriguers and Trickster: The Manifestations of an Archetype in the Comedy of the Renaissance." Revue de Litterature Comparee 61/1(1987) 5-29.
		The Trickster’s Tongue: An Anthology of Poetry in Translation from Africa and the African Diaspora.
		"The Ubiquitous Trickster Archetype in the Narrative of Francisco Ayala." Hispania 70/2 (1987) 222-230.
	www.trinity.edu /org/tricksters/materials/Tricksterbib.htm (7354 words)

	comparison compare contrast essays - Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Oedipus Rex - The Hero Cycle
		The Trickster begins as a fool on whom bad luck befalls and who is always the brunt of practical jokes.
		In Greek myth Prometheus sacrifices himself to bring fire to man. And Christ lets himself be hung on the cross to absolve man's sins.
		This tale may also be about the author's reluctance to give up the Trickster myth in the face of a new upstart religion that only values the Hare cycle, as well as being a warning not to forget the old ways.
	www.123helpme.com /view.asp?id=18793 (2227 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)