The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #37719   Message #528266
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
14-Aug-01 - 10:22 PM
Thread Name: File anonymous guest complaints here
Subject: RE: File anonymous guest complaints here
This one about the original Trickster Coyote figure is a little more sophisticated, but still pretty straightforward.

An interesting role model. I quote from the page I've just linked to: Coyote the trickster is an almost universal presence in Native American spiritual traditions. He created the world, taught human beings survival skills, and brought fire to warm up cold nights. Death came by his hand. He flung the Milky Way into the night sky. At the end of time, Coyote will return and bring all things to completion. His volatile personality, huge appetites for food and women, egotism, and love of mischief--cruel and simply silly--made him unpredictable and potentially dangerous.

Conversely, his epic foolishness caught him in one disastrous trap after another, making him a laughingstock before all of creation.

Much more fun than being nameless.