Beware The Apes Of God

In his 1956 treatise on the Trickster figure, anthropologist Paul Radin discusses that character within the psychological context of mythology.

Trickster characters popped up in Western social communities, usually during Medieval festivals; inversions in the cultural order were recognized ritual events. Clowns became King for a day. During Fool’s Holiday (also Feast of Fools) in Medieval France, the town idiot became…