Our book club chose to focus on trickster figures this year but half of us see them as wise teachers and the other half think they're just chaos agents, and now every discussion turns into this weird argument about whether Loki or Hermes are heroes or villains. We can't seem to hold the paradox that maybe they're both and neither.
More people experience this than they realize.
The group is trapped in binary thinking about figures designed to transcend such categories.
“Where Are You with Trickster figures across traditions?”
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