Tricksters are the opposite of culture heroes. If there is sufficient motivation to change things, Trickster provides for the possibility of such change, most often by showing us the danger of believing too sincerely that this arbitrary arrangement we call culture is the way things really are. The Bungling Host story, widespread throughout Native America, humorously illustrates the perils of overreaching the limits of one's identity while trying to ingratiate one's self. Perhaps the most important thing that needs to be done is to challenge students' notions of myth. Such a definition highlights the fact that myths represent or dramatize shared visions of the world for the people who hold them.
Myths articulate the fundamental truths about the shape of the universe and the nature of humanity.
It is also important to look at important issues of form such as repetition. Repetition strikes many students as boring. Repetition, however, is an aesthetic device that can be used to create expectation. These are all commonplace examples, so commonplace, in fact, that initially most students don't think much of them. But there is no reason why we should begin things by counting to three.