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Trickster Jumps Sides: Disruption and the Anatomy of Culture

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The Myth of the Trickster Storm God

The trickster storm god is the disruption, responsible for the very cycle of change. He drives the sun back so that she might emerge again. Many native traditions held clowns and tricksters as essential to any contact with the sacred people could not pray until they had laughed.

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