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    The trickster from The Emergence is Coyote. A story of worlds‚ with the First World consisting of small areas of land and light. Wingless insects that crawled out from holes in the ground along with winged insects that lead them all to a Second World. This one larger and lighter with different creatures of birds. Another step in to a Third World‚ that is even larger and brighter than the previous one. This world is populated with animals and human beings. The Fourth World’s entrance was not

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    Jessica Banks Creation Civilization Order of Chaos During the early years of civilization “chaos” was known as a dark‚ silent‚ formless and infinite oddity with no trace of life. Within the history of chaos begins with mythological accounts that were constructed by diverse ancient civilizations such as Greek (Theogony)‚ Hebrew (Genesis) and the Egyptian creations. According to Hesiod’s Theogony (700 B.C) in the beginning there was chaos as a primeval state of its existence. Mother Earth

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    The text still has the major idea of Kitsune but it more to the point of the beliefs. For example‚ the way they explain Inari foxes and Tricksters foxes are‚ Inari foxes are good and servants to Inari‚ trickster foxes are evil. The website does go into more detail how the Kitsune is depictive in modern media such as anime and videos games. In what “Kitsune” lack in text‚ the websites backs it up with many photos of Kisune

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    For my research paper‚ I will be discussing about tricksters in history. Tricksters are archetype figures that are known for tricking other divine beings and humans for others benefit‚ or for their own personal gain. Tricksters I believe are those that give some sort of meaning to life. For instance‚ without bad‚ it would become really difficult to notice what is good in the world and vice versa. Some examples of tricksters are Prometheus from Greek mythology and Loki from Norse mythology. These

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    the control of fire. These are two different trickster tales of different cultural importances. Trickster tales are stories that are centered around a character of cultural importance that contain anthropomorphism and usually explain a natural happening. ¨How Stories Came to Earth” and ¨Coyote Steals Fire¨ are both similar and different in various ways including they contain objectives‚ power entities‚ and are of different cultures. In the trickster tale ¨ How Stories Came to Earth‚ the objective

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    Native American Humor: Powerful Medicine in Louise Erdrich ’s Tracks by Jordan Higgins An old adage claims that laughter is the best medicine to cure human ailments. Although this treatment might sound somewhat unorthodox‚ its value as a remedy can be traced back to ancient times when Hypocrites‚ in his medical treatise‚ stressed the importance of “a gay and cheerful mood on the part of the physician and patient fighting disease” (Bakhtin 67). Aristotle viewed laughter as man’s quintessential

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    In trickster tales‚ another common element of these stories is the usage of “brain over brawn.” The purpose of brain over brawn is where the character may lack some physical strength‚ but makes up for it by outsmarting whomever it is going up against. In “How Stories Came to Earth‚” Anansi was not the most immense character‚ but he was able to capture Osebo the leopard by convincing him to put his paws on the sticks he planted on the outside of the hole. He was then able to wrap a string of webs

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    2 Analyzing a Picture Book to Determine if it Exposes Multicultural Ideas to Children Introduction The focus of this analysis will be Gerald McDermott’s picture book Zomo The Rabbit: A Trickster Tale from West Africa (1992). It is a tale of a clever rabbit and how far he is willing to go in his quest for wisdom. This picture book is highly recommended by the New York Public Library as one of 100 picture books everyone should know. The

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    the cultures. Even though most cultures may seem very different‚ they have similar beliefs. Many of these beliefs are expressed in a culture’s creation myth and by comparing the myths from different cultures you can find many similarities. The African and Chinese myths for example‚ show a close similarity in the creation of humans. In the African myth "The Creation of the Universe‚ Ife‚ and Human Beings‚" Obatala becomes lonely and decides to make humans for companionship. He starts digging in the

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    Three Tricksters and Their Objectives Often when a character works toward a goal‚ he or she breaks rules and strays from morality if necessary in order to complete the task. Great benefits typically motivate these characters to work hard and use methods that they would typically consider unacceptable.The tricksters in the folktales “How Stories Came to Earth‚” and “Coyote Steals Fire‚” and in the fairytale‚ “Master Cat: Puss in Boots‚” trick other characters in order to receive a benefit. The ways

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