Study Guide from Ms. Happ's Mythology Course
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| The Trickster is usually what gender? | Male
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| The Trickster delights in what? | Breaking rules, boasting, and playing tricks on both humans and gods
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| The Trickster upsets the natural order of things by doing what? | Stealing or causing humans to fight or engage in unpleasant behavior
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| Most Tricksters are ------ changers who can... | Shape; take any form though often appear as animals
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| Tricksters operate outside of what? | The framework of right and wrong- they don't recognize the rules of society
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| What are the traits of a Trickster? | Childish, greedy, lustful, nasty; Can also be friendly, helpful, clever, and wise
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| Tricksters posses amazing powers of what? | Survival
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| Tricksters may come to sorry end in one story and then what? | Miraculously come back to life and appear in another tale
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| The Trickster acts out what? | Human urges an desires that people living in communities learn to control to maintain social order
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| Myths in which the Trickster's deeds backfire were developed to teach what? | A moral lesson about penalties of misbehavior
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| Myths is which the Trickster is a small, but clever animal that emerges victorious teaches what? | How a seemingly powerless creature can triumph over a mighty one
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| Who is the Trickster for the Northeastern Americans? | Gluskap
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| Who is the Trickster for the Polynesians? | Maui
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| Who is the Trickster for those along the Northwest coast? | Raven
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| Who are the Tricksters for the Greeks? | Hermes and Prometheus
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| Who are the Tricksters for the West Africans? | Eshu (Legba), Anansi
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| Who is the Trickster for the Norse? | Loki
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| Who is the Trickster for the Indians? | Krishna
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| Who is the Trickster for the Native Americans (Shoshoni)? | Old Man Coyote
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