My assignment while on my trip was to bring back some photos and tell about it all and the family. While driving to the ski condo we passed something that was sticking out of a plowed pile of snow about ten feet high. My dad made my mom flip a quick U to get a better look. As we pulled off the road we realized that it was a coyote who had been hit by a car, then snowed on and rolled up and over by a snow plow...due to some melting his head and half of his body was now protruding the pile of snow. I couldn't help but think about the coyote in mythological terms. Coyote in mythology often plays the role of trickster, although in some stories he is a buffoon and the butt of jokes and in a few he is outright evil. His personality strengths are humor and sometimes cleverness. His personality weaknesses are usually greed or desire, recklessness, impulsiveness and jealousy. Coyote is often the antagonist of his brother Wolf, who is wise and good natured but prone to giving in to Coyote's incessant demands. Coyote also plays the role of a hero, or even a culture hero, in some stories. I am however thinking that his trickster days are over with!!
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