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"Few myths have so wide a distribution as the one, known by the name of the Trickster, which we are presenting here. For few can we so confidently assert that they belong to the oldest expressions of mankind. Few other myths have persisted with their fundamental content unchanged. The Trickster myth is found in clearly recognizable form among the simplest aboriginal tribes and among the complex. We encounter it among the ancient Greeks, the Chinese, the Japanese and in the Semitic world. Many of the Trickster's traits were perpetuated in the figure of the mediaeval jester, and have survived right up to the present day in the Punch-and-Judy plays and in the clown. Although repeatedly combined with other myths and frequently drastically reorganized and reinterpreted, its basic plot seems always to have succeeded in reasserting itself. ... The following paper is the presentation of one such Trickster myth, that found among the Siouan-speaking Winnebago of central Wisconsin and eastern Nebraska. -- Prefactory note (p. xxiii)."
"The myth which forms the basis of Dr Radin's study is one of the most imaginative narratives known. It concerns the exploits of a grotesque individual whose main physical features are enormous digestive and sexual organs and who unites in himself some of the traits of a god, an animal, and a human being. Primarily his activities, over which has no conscious control, represent attempts to dupe others, yet actually always recoil upon himself. He is cruel, obscene and possessed of a voracious appetite which he is never permitted to satisfy. Creator and destroyer, affırmer and negator at one and the same time, his activities finally result in the transformation of himself into something approximating a human being. The figure of Trickster is of tremendous historical and psychological importance for an understanding of ourselves. As Dr. Jung suggests in his foreword, Trickster is the symbol of the unconscious and undifferentiated in man. That is why he is represented as being everything to everyman--god, animal, human being, hero, buffoon, he who antedates all values, good and evil.--From publisher description."

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"Srovnávací studie"
"Comparative studies"
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"Mýty"
"Myths"

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"The trickster : a study in American mythology"
"The trickster; a study in American Indian mythology"
"The trickster; a study in American Indian mythology"@en
"The Trickster : a study in American mythology"@en
"Trickster : mýtus o Šibalovi : indiánský mýtus v kontextu světových mytologií"
"The trickster, a study in American Indian mythology"@en
"Trickster"
"The trickster : a study in American Indian mythology. With commentaries by Karl Kerényi and C.G. Jung. Introductory essay by Stanley Diamond"
"The trickster ; a study in american indian mythology"
"Torikkusuta"@ja
"トリックスター"
"The Trickster"
"Torikkusutā"
"Trikster : issledovanie mifov severoamerikanskikh indeĭt︠s︡ev"
"The trickster : a study in American Indian mythology"@en
"The trickster : a study in American Indian mythology"
"The trickster a study in American Indian mythology"@en

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