Explore the fascinating world of tricksters across cultures, mythologies, and folklore, uncovering their roles as shapeshifters, boundary crossers, and cultural transformers. This episode delves into archetypes like Hermes, Coyote, and Sun Wukong, revealing how tricksters embody humanity's curiosity, chaos, creativity, and transformation; and their role at portals and crossroads of change.

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Primary Sources

Hansen, George P. (2001), The Trickster and the Paranormal , Xlibris corp.

Hyde, Lewis (1997). Trickster Makes this World: Mischief. Myth, and Art. Farrar, Straus & Giroux

Pelton, Robert D. (1980). The Trickster in West Africa A study of Mythic irony and sacred delight. California Press

Basso, Ellen B. (1987). In Favor of Deceit: a Study of Tricksters in and Amazonian Society. University of Arizona Press, Tucson

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Trickster origins: The Trickster Archetype: Tracing the Trickster Myths to Their Proto-Trickster Roots https://etd.ohiolink.edu/apexprod/rws_etd/send_file/send?accession=toledo1300928452&disposition=inline p33

Archaic levels of the trickster & On Hermes: Jung, C.G. (1964). Man & his symbols. Doubleday, P151 & 156

Nanobozho: Voegelin, Ermine W. (1984). The Funk & Wagnalls Standard Dictionary of Folklore Mythology and Legend. Harper Collins Publishers, San Francisco, p783

Kushtaka: The Fearsome Alaskan Tlingit Kushtaka: If it’s not One Thing, it’s an Otter – EsoterX https://esoterx.com/2013/01/09/the-fearsome-alaskan-tlingit-kushtaka-if-its-not-one-thing-its-an-otter/

Hlakanyana: Sherman, Josepha (1996). Trickster tales: forty folk stories from around the world.

Zulu Tricksters (Pratt covering Wissler. C.): Pratt, C. (2007). Encyclopedia of shamanism (Vol 2). Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. p564