I find the lore of the trickster god to be curious in the same zany manner ofas the Mad Hatter. It’s a walking contradiction. Two; two opposites that balance each other out. Order/chaos. One; one cannot exist without the other. It’s goofy that it’s recognized as a prominent cosmic component in many cultures. LikeAs I said, I’m no Joseph Campbell, just trying to retain as much as I can. He also talks about the trickster archetype in regard to one who ‘refuses the call.’ Basically, this force in nature will laugh at your suffering as nothing more than an infantile attachment forto not letting go and rising to the call - a cosmic giggle. "In him [Edshu] are contained and from him proceed the contradictions, good and evil, death and life, pain and pleasure, boons and deprivation. As the person of the sun door, he is the fountainhead of all the pairs of opposites. ‘With Him are the keys of the Unseen.... In the end, unto Him will be your return; then will He show you the truth of all that ye did.’”

“Viracocha (prehistoric Peruvian self-contradictory father) is the Universal God, the creator of all things; and yet, in the legends of his appearances upon the earth, he is shown wandering as a beggar, in rags and reviled.”

This is all from Chapter 2, Part 4 of The Hero With A Thousand Faces. I would type more, but it’s a really solid chapter and I don’t want to spoil it for anyone else reading this rnright now. Gnarly☯️