Trickster Trumps
Trickster Trumps Happy, hmm, Labor Day America WILLIAM HUNTER DUNCAN Trickster is a myth that spans the globe. In Africa, typically a spider. In Greek myth it was Hermes. In far northern Europe, Loki. In Japan, Kitsune fox gods. Sang Kancil, the mouse/deer trickster of Malaysia/Indonesia. High John the Conqueror was a trickster for the slaves of early America. In North America the coyote was typically the trickster; in the SW desert, Kokopelli. Myth is a story that has a basis in some fundamental truth of any given society. Trickster is that energy which confronts arrogance: mocking, ridiculing, making light of. Get too full of oneself and the universe is sure to take you down a proverbial peg or three. Continue to hold on to one’s assumptions of one’s greatness or inevitability, trickster will push until one is neither great nor inevitable, for certain. Trickster is focused chaos to aloof order, the monkeywrench in the gears of civilization, a cartoon frog and bad orange man to ...