![]() ![]() ![]() How much better of a book this would have been if this were the first paragraph instead of the very last! This constitutes his universal and persistent attraction. Each had to include him in all its theologies, in all its cosmogonies, despite the fact that it realized that he did not fit properly into any of them, for he represents not only the undifferentiated and distant past, but likewise the undifferentiated present within every individual. No generation understands him fully but no generation can do without him. For this reason every generation occupies itself with interpreting Trickster anew. It contains within itself the promise of differentiation, the promise of god and man. For example, late in the book he says: The symbol which Trickster embodies is not a static one. ![]() My main disappointment with the book is that Radin is concerned almost exclusively with the Winnebago tradition, although he appears quite capable of considering further implications of the Trickster archetype. ![]() It was interesting but a little more specific than I had been hoping for (I forget how this got added to my list, but in subsequent research it seems like my interest in the Trickster figure might have been better fulfilled with the farther-reaching Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth, and Art This was a pretty dry summary of a few of the most common Trickster myths in Native-American folklore. ![]()
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