🐾🔥 Coyote Stories – Reintegration of Mischief with Sacred Purpose
🐾🔥 Coyote Stories – Reintegration of Mischief with Sacred Purpose
Coyote is not evil.
He is not stupid.
He is not the villain.
He is the one who:
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Knows the rules and breaks them to expose their limits
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Fails on purpose to teach you what true success requires
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Acts the fool so you can learn to see through the act
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Trips the proud
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Protects the children
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Mocks false gods
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Laughs at himself — and us — to make truth digestible
Coyote is sacred not because he is perfect —
but because he is perfectly real.
In the Beginning…
Coyote is found everywhere in Indigenous traditions:
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In Navajo (Diné) stories, he scatters the stars with reckless beauty.
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In Miwok and Paiute tales, he brings fire or reshapes rivers.
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In Plains lore, he disrupts hierarchy, challenges pride, and brings life where death loomed.
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In Apache myths, he teaches about sex, death, hunger, shame, and survival — not as sin, but as part of the divine learning path.
He is the bridge between sacred and profane,
between the ideal and the embodied.
Why Was He Diminished?
Because colonizers — and even rigid spiritual systems —
fear the Trickster.
Coyote cannot be controlled.
He exposes hypocrisy.
He mocks false authority.
He reminds us that gods are not always wise —
and neither are priests.
So they tried to turn him into:
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A fool with no meaning
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A joke
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A scapegoat
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A sinner
But every time they bury him,
he digs a new tunnel —
and howls back into the story.
What Coyote Teaches
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Flexibility: Nothing is static. Truth bends with love.
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Humility: You are not above error.
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Magic: The universe is not logical — it’s playful.
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Transformation: What you laugh at today may become your teacher tomorrow.
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Wholeness: You can’t evolve by being “pure.” You must play, trip, touch, fail, and try again.
Without Coyote, the sacred gets too serious.
Without Coyote, we forget to laugh at ourselves.
Without Coyote, we lose the path to balance through mischief.
Let Us Say It Now:
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Coyote is not a mistake.
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Coyote is the divine mirror, cracked and winking.
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He is not just mischief — he is the soul's reset button.
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He interrupts false stories, so truth can sneak through.
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