Trickster Hero Research Paper

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In many cultures around the world their are myths about a trickster hero. The Native
Americans of the Pacific Northwest for example have many stories about Raven. Their trickster hero who can change his shape through magic.
Long ago at the beginning of the world Raven brought the Indian people the sun the moon and fire. In the dark cold world of earliest times the people had no fire. All of the people at raw food and shivered in the cold. Because Raven knew that there was fire up in the sky. One night he flew up through a hole in the sky to the tent of the sun. He transformed himself into a baby boy and lay outside the tent. The daughter of the skies found him, and brought him into the sun 's tent. The baby boy grew quickly. Became a toddler