Coyote appears in 2 systems: the same name is used for more than one thing. Both are shown below.
Deities
Coyote
Native American trickster deity who creates through mistakes and chaos. Sometimes creator, always disruptor. Teaches through making mistakes, getting caught, being foolish. Represents that chaos teaches, that mistakes are sacred, that humor is survival tool. Sacred fool who reveals truth through absurdity.
Coyote is a trickster and culture hero in many North American nations - in a few (Crow/Apsaalooke 'Old Man Coyote', Blackfoot Napi) a creator-trickster - but he is generally not a deity in the sense of an object of worship, and 'Coyote' is a family of nation-specific figures, not one pan-Indian being. The planetary, elemental and tarot values given here (Mercury, air/fire, the Fool/the Magician) and the 'patron of' language are Western occult and Wiccan categories that no Plains tradition uses. Titles such as 'First Screw-Up' are modern colloquialisms.
Correspondences
- Planetary Correspondence
- Mercury
- Zodiac Affinity
- GeminiSagittarius
Offerings
- Offerings
- TobaccoCornmealFood scrapsLaughterMistakes acknowledgedActs of sacred foolishnessAdaptability
Sacred timing
- Sacred Timing
Symbols and forms
- Alternate Names
- TricksterOld Man CoyoteFirst Creator
- Gender Expression
- Masculine trickster
- Titles
- The TricksterSacred FoolChaos TeacherCreator Through MistakesFirst Screw-Up
- Symbols
- CoyoteDesertFireMistakes
Practice
- Invocation Approach
- TonePlayful respect for chaos teacherAddressCoyoteTricksterOld ManRelationshipTeacher through chaos and humorWarningWill teach through making you look foolishResonanceThose learning through mistakes and chaos
- Modern Practice
Patron of tricksters, those learning through mistakes, survivors. Invoked for navigating chaos, finding humor in difficulty, sacred disruption. Teaches that mistakes are teachers, that chaos serves, that foolishness reveals wisdom.
Nature and meaning
- Domain
- TrickeryChaosTeaching through mistakesSacred disruptionSurvivalAdaptabilityHumor
- Mythology Summary
Native American trickster deity who creates through mistakes and chaos. Sometimes creator, always disruptor. Teaches through making mistakes, getting caught, being foolish. Represents that chaos teaches, that mistakes are sacred, that humor is survival tool. Sacred fool who reveals truth through absurdity.
Details
- Secondary Planets
- Uranus
Animal totems
Modern Western animal-totem reading (Andrews, Animal-Speak, 1992; Sams & Carson, Medicine Cards, 1988) of Coyote, a trickster and culture-hero of many Indigenous North American traditions (compare the coyote entry under Deities); it is not a transmission from those nations.
Correspondences
Practice
- Magical Uses
- Trickster workSurvivalAdaptationHumour
Nature and meaning
- Shadow Aspect
- DeceitScavengingMischief
Details
- Keywords
- TricksterSurvivalAdaptationHumour
- Medicine
- ClevernessEnduranceImprovisationLaughter
- When Appears
- A joke that is also a lessonSurvival by wit
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Every entry that names Coyote, grouped by the system it comes from.
☥ Deities 10
☯ Archetypes 1
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