Tricksters in Myth & Folklore

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"For those people (whether they are themselves religious or not) who have grown up immersed in the Judeo-Christian tradition, the image of the archetypal divine figure - whether god or angel or saint - is an entity of pure goodness. Moreover, within the Judeo-Christian tradition, divine beings are most certainly both honest and trustworthy; indeed one of the ways that humans and divine entities may be distinguished from each other is precisely along this axis.

But this distinction between humans as inconstant and fallible and gods and their minions as trustworthy, always good and perfectly honest is a certainly not a universal aspect of human pantheons. In fact, it may exist in a minority of human cultures, for many of the world's religions contain a figure who straddles these descriptive categories. This being, who is in the class.."

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