*70 The Trickster does not rise from the ashes of the past like the Phoenix*52 into a new life with a new awareness, but rises in the same life and is ignorant with the same consciousness. The trickster is a caricature of a hero and does not lead to a person's transformation. The trickster keeps a person in the world of antitheses and is a mediator between consciousness and matter or God and nature. He is able to turn good into evil and vice versa in the world of antitheses. The Trickster archetype therefore belongs to the world of people, and his foolishness keeps us in our unconscious submission in this world. The role of the Trickster in our unconscious can be best understood in the mythological figures of North American Indians in which the Trickster is represented in many forms – in the hare, rabbit, raven, coyote, spider, jay or mink. It can appear in these forms as a prankster and even bungler that is often destroyed by its own pranks and trickery; it ends up injured or even dead, only to come to life again. African myths (the god Eshu), Austrailian myths (Ungruamu, Mimi and others), Pacific myths (Maui) and Northern European myths (Loki) all have similar figures. See the Hero archetype.
