![]() ![]() Coyote invents traps and discovers ways of trapping animals and men alike. Coyote uses his intelligence to deceive creatures, another example of this is when Coyote traps two buffalo by leading them to the sun, where they are blinded, and then he pushes them over a cliff. One myth that coyote benefits himself from is when he makes a fish trap and a salmon is caught in it, not knowing that it’s a trap. Coyote has many myths involving playing tricks and deceiving others for his own benefit. One trickster that we see in many different Native American myths is Coyote. In the end, like Loki, his story ends badly though, which means the situation ended up being bad once again. Prometheus does make it great though by tricking Zeus once again and stealing fire (which Zeus takes away as the punishment) to give back to mankind. This trick caused a good situation (a negotiation) to become bad, then when Zeus punishes mankind, it becomes worse. In anger, Zeus punished mankind for the trick, but the trick still worked in Prometheus’s eyes. Zeus picked the bones (knowingly) and whichever one he picked he was what mankind had to sacrifice. He slew a large ox and divided it, making one pile full of meat and fat and the other a pile of bones with shining fat. ![]() Prometheus tricks Zeus for mankind’s benefit. You see this when him, Zeus and the gods, and mortals have dinner together to discuss the matter of how sacrifices would be made. The trickster, Prometheus, is a situation-invertor. He is captured any way, but his trick was quite clever, if only Odin wasn’t as clever. We see it in action when Loki turns into a salmon to fool Odin, but this trick doesn’t work. ![]() Loki, for example, has many of these and we see them throughout every myth, but the biggest trickster characteristic that he is known for is shape-shifting.
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