He possesses no values, moral or social, is at the mercy of his passions and appetites, yet through his actions all values come into being (xxiii). He knows neither good nor evil yet he is responsible for both.
At all times he is constrained to behave as he does from impulses over which he has no control. In his book Radin preliminarily defines the North American Indian Trickster as follows: "Trickster is at one and the same time creator and destroyer, giver and negator, he who dupes others and who is always duped himself. Manabozho or Nanaboozoo (also known as Winabojo or Nanabush) is an example of this more controlled, benevolent culture hero among the Chippewa of the Algonquian tribes. He also relates and comments on other myths including a Winnebago Hare cycle and its cognates, noting an evolution from trickster to culture hero in the trickster figure among the Ojibwa and Menominee (131). Radin also notes the translation of trickster in Ponca, ishtinike, and in Osage, itsike and in the Dakota-Soiux it is ikto-mi, the spider (132). Among the forty nine stories are the story of Wakdjunkaga taking his extremely large and weighty penis from the box off his back where he carries it to send it across the river to impregnate a chief's daughter and the story of the talking laxative bulb consumed by the trickster resulting in effluent scatological comedies. According to Radin the translation of the tricky one in a Siouan language of the Winnebago is wakdjunkaga accordingly this specific trickster cycle is also known as the Wakdjunkaga Trickster cycle. The Winnebago Trickster cycle of forty-nine stories is central in his book, The Trickster and is the most referenced trickster figure of his writings by subsequent students of Native American tricksters. Paul Radin wrote an initial trickster treatise in 1955 after studying particular Winnebago myths. He refers to other versions from other tribal traditions but he centers on this particular Winnebago heritage. In this particular book he analyzes the Trickster myth in parallel with the Hare myth, both from the Winnebago Indians.
But an authority from the first half of the 20th century. Paul Radin is an authority in American Indian mythology, today rather referred to as Native American.
Anthropological and psychological analysis by Radin Kereny and Jung of the voraciously uninhibited episodes of the Winnebego Trickster cycle. No internal inscriptions, markings or stains. Slight tropical speckling to Page Edges, otherwise, clean, clear text in tightly bound volume. Book Condition: Very Good but with no DJ.
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