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kslater says:
>     So, in terms of my current hypothesis that the trickster combines a
>form of the con game with irony, we have the trickster running the con
>that he is really a brave warrior, who is shown to be a coward by a
>nurturant male.
>    The stronger hypothesis is, however, I dont know what in hell this
>story is about.

I tend to agree with the last hypothesis, and I'm quite sure it applies
to me as well.  Our set of mainstream American cultures derive from a
different history and worldview.  When we explain these stories in terms
of our own experience, I suspect we miss the point more often than not.

Of course, it *is* part of the folk process to take stories from other
times and peoples and coopt them into our own value set, and use them
for our own purposes.  Isn't that what the Jesus Seminar thread is all
about?  :)

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