3/28 Trickster

*tricks
*trouble-maker
*conman
*delivering
*joker
*used car salesman

-Loki
-Puck
-Hermes
-Bugs buggy
-Coyote
-Satan/J.C.
-Raven
-Maui
-Charlie Sheen

*Without trickster figures, we would not have a world

Nature of Trickster

*old world- human/god
*Africa- animals (new world)
     *more closely associated us animal world

*liminal space
       -threshold, cross roads, boundary markers, neither/nor

*threshold

Hermes- statue, thing that marks threshold/crossroads

motivation- appetite/desire for things that please the flesh

cultural heroes

Bricolage

1. ambiguous personality
        *life/death, culture/nature, order/chaos, fertility/impotence

2. deceiver
      *trick player

3. shape shifter

4. situation inverter

5. messenger/immitation of gods

6. sacred/lewd bricoleum -DIY
          *do it yourself
         *not bound by rules that constrain others

obscene:
not normal, lude, mud/filth, shit, left-sided

off-scene: can see rules of society