Tricksters: thinking aloud meets AKICIF

[redbird]

Who is the European/Christian Trickster?

If you're Native North American, s/he's Coyote. In Africa, one of Trickster's names is Anansi the spider.

Is there a European Trickster other than Loki? Prometheus tricked the gods, but that's a bit different and was a one-time deal.

And yes, I know that European doesn't equal Christian, in either direction, but I don't have a better shorthand for our dominant culture. Euro-American?

Comments

[kiya]

Also, there is the notion of Hermes as a consistent Greek trickster figure; I don't know if this is something He holds in common with Mercury. (It is, however, one of the major points of correspondence with His Greek Period syncretism with Djehuty (Thoth).)

I don't know enough about Celtic gods to comment about theirs.