Coyote

Also called Old Coyote, Shunk-Manitou, Slim Coyote.

Coyote is the trickster and transformer of many Native American traditions, who shapes the world and brings gifts to people in the same motion by which he disgraces himself through appetite and vanity.

Tradition: Native American folklore
Region: North America (place of origin)
Trait family: The Tricksters
Symbols: Coyote

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Symbols

Judged against the description by a model. Meanings are our own paraphrase.

Coyote is image-domain Coyote is the Amerindian transformer and trickster, creator and destroyer at once, whose blundering pranks carry unforeseen consequence and whose imperfection explains an imperfect world.
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Coyote is the trickster and transformer of many Native American traditions, who shapes the world and brings gifts to people in the same motion by which he disgraces himself through appetite and vanity.

Traits

Read from the figure's description, which a model wrote. Open "why" for the sentence a trait came from.

Behaviour

Trickster outwits larger foes
why
Coyote is a transformer who does real world-making — bringing fire, releasing water or game, establishing how death works, arranging features of the landscape — and he is also foolish, greedy, lecherous and vain, frequently undone by exactly the appetite that drove the useful act.
Culture bringer teaches crafts
why
Coyote is a transformer who does real world-making — bringing fire, releasing water or game, establishing how death works, arranging features of the landscape — and he is also foolish, greedy, lecherous and vain, frequently undone by exactly the appetite that drove the useful act.

Utility powers

Trickery and cunning
why
Coyote is a transformer who does real world-making — bringing fire, releasing water or game, establishing how death works, arranging features of the landscape — and he is also foolish, greedy, lecherous and vain, frequently undone by exactly the appetite that drove the useful act.
Shapeshifting
why
Rose's survey states the shape-changing outright rather than leaving it to the transformer role — Coyote shifts shape at will, most often appearing as the prairie wolf or as a human.
Resurrection
why
Many cycles have him killed and restored, sometimes repeatedly, which places him outside ordinary consequence and lets a teller run him through humiliations that would end another figure.

Roles

Judged from the works' own entries, not from the description. Carries: the figure holds the role. Meets: the role is in its stories, held by something it meets.