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Male deities depicted as tricksters, story characters (gods, goddesses, spirits, humans or anthropomorphisations) who exhibit a great degree of intellect or secret knowledge and use it to play tricks or otherwise disobey normal rules and defy conventional behavior.
Huehuecoyotl - the gender-changing coyote god of music, dance, mischief and song of Pre-Columbian Mexico and Aztec Mythology. Befitting a trickster, he is the patron of uninhibited sexuality and often engages in trickery against the gods with camaraderie among mortals.
Padel, Ruth, Whom Gods Destroy, Elements of Greek and Tragic Madness, Princeton University Press, 1995. ISBN 0-691-03360-9. Internet Archive. Panyassis, in Greek Epic Fragments: From the Seventh to the Fifth Centuries BC, edited and translated by Martin L. West, Loeb Classical Library No. 497, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press ...
This is an index of lists of mythological figures from ancient Greek religion and mythology. List of Greek deities; List of mortals in Greek mythology; List of Greek legendary creatures; List of minor Greek mythological figures; List of Trojan War characters; List of deified people in Greek mythology; List of Homeric characters
Gods and goddesses associated with deception, disguise, illusion and shapeshifting. Subcategories This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total.
The meaning of Lugh's name is still a matter of debate. Some scholars propose that it derives from a suggested Proto-Indo-European root *(h2)lewgh-meaning "to bind by oath" (compare Old Irish luige and Welsh llw, both meaning "oath, vow, act of swearing" and derived from a suffixed Proto-Celtic form, *lugiyo-, "oath"), [7] suggesting that he was originally a god of oaths and sworn contracts. [4]
Isis, Serapis and their child Harpocrates In Egyptian mythology, Horus was the child of Isis and Osiris.Osiris was the original divine pharaoh of Egypt, who had been murdered by his brother Set (by interpretatio graeca, identified with Typhon or Chaos), mummified, and thus became the god of the underworld.
The trickster figure Reynard the Fox as depicted in an 1869 children's book by Michel Rodange. In mythology and the study of folklore and religion, a trickster is a character in a story (god, goddess, spirit, human or anthropomorphisation) who exhibits a great degree of intellect or secret knowledge and uses it to play tricks or otherwise disobey normal rules and defy conventional behavior.