No, I'm not fond of cultural appropriation for the purpose of shoehorning it into a pet theory. It smacks of imperialism.
Interest post, btw. I think tricksters are generally important figures, not just clowns and cultural taboos personified. Chaos theory personified, if they must be a personification, the power waiting just beneath the surface of the world to rip away that surface and be transformed into something new. Bad for individuals living in a particular time and place, but the way in which change happens.
I got the Landay book a day or two after Tannen arrived and I'm also looking for Scheherezade's Sisters and rereading Hyde. You might want to add Aunt Nancy from African-American folklore to your list, as well as Baubo/Iambe from Greek myth. Those last two also give you a nice triad goddesss thing if you're looking for it: Iambe/maiden, Demeter/mother, Baubo/crone.
As to Lilith, I think she has trickster implications. She's much degraded in Judeo-Christian tradition and what appeals to me about her as a feminine icon is what scraps one can glean about her from a broader Mess o'potamian perspective: her associations with Inanna, et al. Even within the Judeo-Christian context, her independence and her refusal to be submissive and/or ungratified and unimportant is appealing. I view that whole demon thing as propoganda for trying to keep uppity women in place. Of course they have to downgrade her to demon. She questions their grip on power.
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No, I'm not fond of cultural appropriation for the purpose of shoehorning it into a pet theory. It smacks of imperialism.
Interest post, btw. I think tricksters are generally important figures, not just clowns and cultural taboos personified. Chaos theory personified, if they must be a personification, the power waiting just beneath the surface of the world to rip away that surface and be transformed into something new. Bad for individuals living in a particular time and place, but the way in which change happens.
I got the Landay book a day or two after Tannen arrived and I'm also looking for Scheherezade's Sisters and rereading Hyde. You might want to add Aunt Nancy from African-American folklore to your list, as well as Baubo/Iambe from Greek myth. Those last two also give you a nice triad goddesss thing if you're looking for it: Iambe/maiden, Demeter/mother, Baubo/crone.
As to Lilith, I think she has trickster implications. She's much degraded in Judeo-Christian tradition and what appeals to me about her as a feminine icon is what scraps one can glean about her from a broader Mess o'potamian perspective: her associations with Inanna, et al. Even within the Judeo-Christian context, her independence and her refusal to be submissive and/or ungratified and unimportant is appealing. I view that whole demon thing as propoganda for trying to keep uppity women in place. Of course they have to downgrade her to demon. She questions their grip on power.