Coyote
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.
Our paraphrase of what the sources say it carries.
At a glance
- Type
- Image
- Group
- Animal World / Wild Animals
- Borne by
- 1 figure
- Traditions
- Native American folklore (1)
- Same group
- BearBullElephantHorseRabbit/Hare and 1 more
Figures that bear it
A model judged each figure against its own description, one term at a time. Is: the figure is a kind of this thing. Bears: it carries the thing or is marked by it. What a figure does is filed under motifs and powers. Open "why" for the sentence the judgement rests on.
- Coyote is Native American folklore
why
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.