Tricksters | The Cunning and Untrustworthy

Anansi Loki Puck Sun Wukong Coyote and Baron Samedi and Robin Hood are my favourite tricksters within Mythology!

I love how you put Thieves and Herm’s one after another! 🤘🥷

I love them all but Raven from Pacific Northwest Native mythology is my favorite. He's a boundary crosser, a chaotic force that shakes up the status quo but also false assumptions and injustice. He saves the sun, moon and stars because it's what needs to be done and he is the vehicle of that necessity. Sometimes he seems ineffably deep and wise, sometimes silly and mischievous. But to be a Trickster is to be comfortable with paradox and with knowing that everything is in flux. A Trickster's perspective is often of one who is outside the system and sees its with true clarity, holding up a mirror, as you said, to us. That is a beautiful concept.

A deceiver.......there's nothing heroic about a coward and treacherous oportunisti scumbag. Their main stimuli is ENVY.....and their sense of inferioroty makes them fabricate lies to destroy their object of envy.....politicians are a very good example, of this sorry excuse of humans, ....

Horoscope Tarot card hermits are tricksters naturally.

I wish that you didn't put the simpson in this video it's not a trickster.😾

Coyote is my favorite trickster!🩷🐺

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Today tricksters are known as politicians 🤡

Great video keep up the good work

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Loki is by far my favorite trickster in mythology

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My favorite are Loki and Son Wu Kong.

Diego Dela Vega is a trickster himself since he constantly pretends to be a spineless fop to keep others from realizing that he is Zorro.

Erik, aka The Phantom of the Opera can also be considered a trickster with the pranks he pulls on the managers of the theatre, using his skills as a ventriloquist to make Carlotta sound like she was croaking, or, like in the movie, switching out her throat spray that made her lose her voice onstage.

Speaking of Little Red Riding Hood, in some versions of the original fairy tale, the Big Bad Wolf was actually a werewolf.

I think that if Sun Drop and Moon Drop were mythological characters, Moon would be the trickster. Sometimes helpful, sometimes harmful, you never actually know.

I love the Trickster archetype.

As Japanese tricksters, Kitsune and Tanuki are more popular than Tengu.

I find it most interesting that each culture has its own trickster. You exposed the subject beautifully, as always. I keep loving your work, you always go into the intricacies and details of symbolic meanings which is so helpful.

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Set did trick Osiris but the further back you go the more different he is

Ya know, the whole fight between Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite could have been easily avoided if the three had remembered that at a wedding the BRIDE is the fairest. Greedy little goddesses.

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Anyone else notice they show pictures of Robin Hood sometimes in this episode, but don’t even discuss him

The Fair Folk. Just... the Fair Folk.

What a wonderful topic! Thanks for another great episode. 😁🔥🙌

Always enjoy these

Anansi 🕷️, Esu Elegba 🪄, Papa Legba🎩,
Baron Samedi 💀, Kouzen Zaka 👨🏿‍🌾,John The Conquer 🏃🏿, Sun Wukong 🐒 and Coyote 🐺 my favorite divine tricksters 💨👻

Me watching the video: "Where's THE trickster I know..."

Narration, near the end of the video: "Perhaps the most famous trickster of mythology is Loki-"

Me: "THERE'S the nod to my favorite pantheon to learn about."

All in all a FABULOUS video! And yes, please! More videos on tricksters like Loki and Coyote! Thank you for the time and effor you put into these videos you do!

I'm so happy you covered this character type in mythology, and such a thorough video to cover the different types and characters! This is one of my new favorites from your channel! 🤩

I would say Loki is my favorite. A facet of tricksters is a tendency to 'get around', or tease others who struggle with such. Tricksters tend to reap what they sow in that many of the challenges they face are the results of them somehow creating the problem or taking on the thing willingly. They also can fall into the Byronic hero and general antihero tropes/archetypes.

From many members of the the Third Race from "Gargoyles" were depicted as tricksters that shaped the various mythologies on Earth like the Raven, Coyote, Anansi, and Puck.

you gotta love, when the modest tricksters were presented, classic

My favorite archetypal character trope in fictional stories. I've always found the stories of tricksters to be much more complex, interesting, and compelling than the boring stories of fabled heroes always ending up winning against the villain, and saving the day by overcoming difficult trials and tribulations. And them always being bound by a "moral code" where the lines of good and bad are defined makes heroes so boring to relate. Plus, such characterization for morally "good" heroes is such a narrow-minded perspective of the grander worldview where certain situations aren't as easily defined by the lens of heroes seeing things as simply "good", or "bad". Such narrative tool is cliche, as it is overdone.

Coyote, anansi, big bad wolf, Brer Rabbit and eris both my favorite trickers characters and especially Loki he kind lots of trickers of my favorite trickers.

Mmm mmm about the only Trickster I know of is Loki as you said he is the most famous............. What and the Monkey King he kind of famous one too

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Do episode of Maui

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I have applied some tricksters in my novels. And I always knew that Set was a trickster, though in the Egyptian pantheon, he is my grandfather. Planning to do him sometime?

Tricksters are fun.

Be prepared to work for your clarity.

Best to enter into bargaining with something they don’t know they want in my experience. It’s slam dunk but fuck Erebus make me work for them.

Please do some videos on orcs, gremlins, goblins, and ogres.

If I could be reborn as any trickster, I would choose to be a daitengu. Not only would I have magical powers, but I could also fly under my own power. As for where I’d live if I was a tengu, Mt. Takao is the place I’d call home. Because it’s a tourist attraction, I’d use my powers to mess with the heads of foreign tourists that are disrespectful as a means of teaching them a lesson.

Since the Mask was a product of Loki, that makes him the ultimate trickster !

This is one of the most interesting videos you guys have made. Amazing work as always ❤

Trickster god=Cain Thunder lighting god=Abel all the same story Sif=Lulu Abel's soulmate

I’d say leprechauns are good tricksters. They’re not like they are depicted in cartoons they’re actually very sinister.

I actually made up my own trickster type character. In fact he's my own self insert furrpersona.

I named him Jack Renard, after both my favorite fairytale protagonist and the foxy trickster character of French folklore.