trickster
rrocher at sas.upenn.edu
rrocher at sas.upenn.edu
Wed Apr 27 19:06:22 UTC 1994
In the traditional (Sanskrit) fables of India (Hitopadesha, Pancatantra),
it is the jackal who is the archetypal trickster. There is also a human
equivalent, generally translated the "rogue".
Rosane Rocher (Penn).
dk.seattle wrote:
>
> This message was forwarded to me by a friend who subscribes to a list
> dealing with Native American languages. Can anyone shed some light on
> this, posting to our list for our general edification and copying to
> David Cole? As many of you know, the archetypal trickster in American
> Indian tradition is coyote.
>
> > Taken from nat-lang, who were talking about the indigenous american
> > "trickster" and associations with personified "spider" a while back:
> >
> > >Original Sender: "David Cole" <maxwell.syr.edu!DCOLE>
> > >
> > >A sidebar to "trickster." My wife is a Professor in the Anthro
> > >department here at Syracuse U, and had a grad student who wrote on
> > >spider-as-trickster in various regions of India. I've tried Mosaic
> > >and Gopher searches on tricksters, but nothing much turns up.
> > >
> > gli
> >
> -Dennis King
>
>
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