Tricksters: An Introduction: Crash Course World Mythology #20

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• BL

  @blackR0se_ · 9 years ago

  I'm Jamaican and anansi stories are a big part of our culture

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• CR

  @CrisSelene · 9 years ago

  I always thought Bugs Bunny was a trickster god.

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• SK

  @skykid · 9 years ago

  In many eastern religions tricksters are seen as a vital important counterbalance to the order and law that patriarchies tend to foster. In fact monks were seen as agents of chaos, who ignored laws because their wisdom would teach kings lessons when no one else had the nerve to dispute them.

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• KI

  @kimone6831 · 9 years ago

  I'm from Jamaica and there are so many Anancy stories here... he's a Trickster alright. Can you believe it? Africans travelled across oceans and seas and they still managed to preserve this despite everything and pass it down through folklore. :)

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• SP

  @spaceised · 9 years ago

  Anansi stories are so great. They&apos;re from Ghana and hearing them from your frail, old Ghanaian grandfather or mother makes it even better. <br><br>Also if you&apos;re Ghanaian you hear little quirks always in the stories. Anansi&apos;s first name is Kweku meaning he was born on a Wednesday and the storymaker gave him a &quot;kradin&quot; (name to fit the day of the week you were born) so that you&apos;d think of a human man even though anansi means spider in Twi our language. I love it so much❤️❤️🇬🇭🇬🇭🇬🇭🇬🇭

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• TH

  @thekrakenexperiment280 · 9 years ago (edited)

  Actually, the original myth about Atlas was that he was holding the sky, preventing it from crushing the Earth. It wasn&apos;t until centuries later when it was changed to holding the Earth.

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• SH

  @ShawnRavenfire · 9 years ago

  The tricksters aren&apos;t always male. &nbsp;Eris brought chaos to Olympus by throwing a golden apple into a party and causing the other goddesses to fight over it.

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• VE

  @Vera_fy58 · 9 years ago

  Being a Ghanaian myself<br>my mom and dad always told me stories about anansi

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• CI

  @Cinqmil · 9 years ago (edited)

  In one of the Anansi stories Anansi steals the balls of the Tiger, replaces them with his own balls and blames the monkeys for it. That&apos;s why tigers don&apos;t like monkeys and vice versa. <br>It also explains why such an enormous animal as the Tiger has such small testicles.

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• SA

  @salvadorgamma3266 · 9 years ago

  Anansi stories are also prevalent in Jamaica. &nbsp;Thanks for adding this!

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• SH

  @shinigamijedi · 9 years ago

  Oh my goodness ANANSI. I raised listening to stories of anansi the spider and his tricks and how they always ended badly for him. And whenever I&apos;d see a spider on the wall I would say it&apos;s Anansi. ( I lived in Ghana).

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• KE

  @kevinanderson63 · 9 years ago (edited)

  Anansi is Ghanaian. It originated with the Asante (Ashanti) tribe. Anansi means spider in Twi ( the language of the Asante). The Asante had an empire in West Africa where they would have spread their stories and traditions. The Asante were also taken as slaves to the New World. When slaves were returned to Siera Leone and Liberia the Anansi stories were spread by them there.

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