Trickster
283 books featuring this archetype
The Trickster disrupts order through cunning, parody, and inversion. By exposing contradictions, this figure releases creative renewal.
The Iliad
Homer • Greek
The Odyssey
Homer • Greek
Epic of Gilgamesh
Sin-leqi-unninni • Mesopotamian
Mahabharata
Vyasa • Indian
Ramayana
Valmiki • Indian
Rigveda
Anonymous • Indian
Poetic Edda
Anonymous • Germanic
Prose Edda
Snorri Sturluson • Germanic
Enuma Elish
Anonymous • Mesopotamian
Metamorphoses
Ovid • Roman
One Thousand and One Nights
Anonymous • Arabic
The Aeneid
Virgil • Roman
Book of the Dead
Anonymous • Egyptian
Early Upanishads
Anonymous • Indian
Oedipus Rex
Sophocles • Greek
Oresteia
Aeschylus • Greek
Popol Vuh
Anonymous • Mesoamerican
Journey to the West
Wu Cheng'en • East Asian
Kojiki
O no Yasumaro • East Asian
Nihon Shoki
Prince Toneri • East Asian
Apollodorus' Library
Pseudo-Apollodorus • Greek
Theogony
Hesiod • Greek
Atharvaveda
Anonymous • Indian
Lotus Sutra
Anonymous • Indian