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Child of Chaos: Coyote: A Folkloric Triad |
| Section: CULTURE / FOLK WISDOM--TRICKSTER MYTHOLOGY FROM AROUND THE WORLD |
| Author: Josepha Sherman |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 4/1/1990 |
| Size: 2,347 Words, 12,122 Characters |
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Coyote ... mischief maker, child of chaos, creator-by-chance. Coyote ... the unpredictable whose pranks, somehow, tend to Set Things Right…Coyote, there at the very Beginning.
Trickster tales remind us that life isn't necessarily fair, but that nothing, no matter how unhappy, lasts forever. The amoral trickster, as befits his shape-shifting, unpredictable nature, can be a force of wild, primal power, acting on mere whim. He assumes many guises and roles: the Greek god of wine and chaos Dionysus; High John, the black slave who always gets the better of his master and is the breath of hope to an enslaved people; or folk heroes such as the German medieval Till Eulenspiegel, the English Robin Hood, and even modern cartoon characters who give us the relief of laughter and the vicarious...
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...e called. "Are you content? Learned your lesson?"
"Lesson? What are you talking about?"
"Look down at yourself, stranger. No clothes, no horse. Look down and admit: No man living can trick Coyote!"
The man's mouth dropped open as he realized how he'd been fooled. "Why you sly, no-good son of a - You come back here!" he raged. But with a wave of his hand, Coyote rode away.
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