trickster

occupation / innovator as

classical philologist

nationality

Hungarian

historian of religion

mythographer

university teacher

scientific organization

Hungarian Academy of Sciences

innovator in the field of

hermeneutics

history of religions

mythology

classical philology

's function is to add disorder to order and so make a whole, to render possible, within the fixed bounds of what is permitted, an experiment of what is not permitted.

For Karl Kerenyi the function of the Trickster was 'to add disorder to order and so make a whole, to render possible, within the fixed bounds of what is permitted, an experiment of what is not permitted' (ibid:185).

Karl KerenyiThinkers

Karl Kerenyi