Tricksters | The Cunning and Untrustworthy

Another trickster is the raven that stole the sun. Imo that is insanely impressive if not terrifying.

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.

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

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.

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

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

I really like this video because tricksters are fascinating! I guess my favorites are Coyote, Raven and Anansi. I'd love to see individual videos for different 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! 🤩

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.

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

I love the Trickster archetype.

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.

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

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.

Loki is by far my favorite trickster in mythology

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

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

Awesome, first comment! Love your videos and learning new lore and rehearing old lore, keep up the amazing work!

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