In General
These are (4) characteristics of tricksters.
What are (1) underprivileged figures, (2) boundary crossers, (3) shape shifters, (4) rule breakers?
This is the culture from whence Monkey King comes.
What is Chinese (Buddhist)?
This is the culture from whence Maui comes.
This is the culture from whence Anansi comes.
This is the culture from whence Raven comes.
What is Native American?
This is the culture from whence Loki comes.
What is Norse?
This is why cultures have tricksters.
What is to force change, creativity, and test safety features?
This is why Sun Wukong ended up in the Underworld.
What is his name was written on the Register of Life or Death?
What is Hina-of-the-fire (his mother)?
These are the creatures that Anansi tricks.
What are (1) leopard, (2) python, (3) hornet, (4) forest spirit?
This is the problem that Raven solves.
What is darkness on earth (an extended night)?
This character wants to marry Idun and keep her apples for himself.
Who is the giant Thjazi?
This is what tricksters challenge in a culture.
What are cultural expectations and traditional thinking?
This is the character that could not be tricked by the Monkey King.
Who is the Buddha?
This is the character who advises Maui in what to do to trap the sun.
Who is his grandmother?
This is why Anansi must capture creatures in his bag.
What is to show them to the Sky God so that he could receive all of the world's stories?
This character was hoarding the sun, moon, and stars in boxes in his home.
Who is the Chief (or baby Raven's grandfather)?
This character is selected to marry Skadi because he has the most beautiful feet in all of Asgard.
Who is Njord?
These characters moved between realms of humans and gods.
Who are Anansi, Maui, and Sun Wukong?
This was the Monkey King's strongest desire.
What is to become immortal?
This is how Maui tamed the sun.
What is tying up the sun's rays and then attacking it with his stone axe over and over again until it begged for relief?
This is the problem that Anansi solved.
What is boredom from having no stories?
This is how Raven came to be born the child of a chief.
What is shapeshift into a seed and be swallowed by the chief's daughter?
These characters are able to or forced to shapeshift in the story.
Who are Loki, Thiazi, and Idun?
These characters are shapeshifters.
Who are Raven and Loki?
This is what Sun Wukong does that is trickster-like.
What is move between heaven and earth, creatively solve problems, and move his body in defiance of rules of physics?
This is what Maui does that is trickster-like.
What is move between realms and literally trap the sun's rays?
This is what Anansi does that is trickster-like.
What is use what he knows about the creatures (their weaknesses) to build a trap fitting for them specifically?
This is what Raven does that is trickster-like.
What is (1) shapeshift, (2) use a character's weakness to defeat them.
This is what Loki does that is trickster-like.
What is (1) leading Idun into the forest under the pretense of the best apples ever, (2) changing Idun into a nut for transport, (3) engaged a goat in tug-of-war to make Skadi laugh?