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Podcast: Myth in the Mojave
Episode: Coyote Keeps His Name and The Eye Juggler
Description: This episode includes two stories about one of my favorite mythological charactersâthe trickster known as Old Man Coyote. Trickster figures are very common in mythologies all over the world because we couldnât have this lively, ever-evolving, ever changing, perfectly imperfect world that we live in, without him. This first story is âCoyote Keeps His Name,â based on a version told by the Okanagon people of the Pacific Northwest, adapted from Barry Lopez collection titled âGiving Birth to Thunder.âThe second story is âThe Eye Juggler.â I first came across this story in a book titled âTrickster Makes the...