The mistake people make about the trickster archetype... · 7:44pm Sep 30th, 2015
...is that they think he is happy all the time. He isn't.
Coyote loses his wife to his own lack of self control.
Prometheus and Loki are punished by the "higher" gods for disobedience.
The trickster experiences joy and pain in equal measure, which is why to me he is the most relatable of mythological figures.