The divine rogue

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The divine rascal is the title of a cycle of Indian myths published by the authors Paul Radin , Karl Kerényi and CG Jung in 1954.

origin

The anthropologist Paul Radin received the rogue myth from his informant Sam Blowsnake as part of his field research at the Winnebago in 1912. The Indian Blowsnake belonged to Thunderbird ( Thunderbird ) - Clan .

Blowsnake had grown up and familiar with the Indian way of life, but only a Winnebago Indian who had the right to tell could tell him the rogue myth. Blowsnake documented the myth in the Winnebago syllabary . The Indians John Baptiste and Oliver Lamere provided the first translation from the syllabary into the English language. This version was edited by Paul Radin, who had knowledge of the syllabary. For the German publication Ilse Krämer translated the Schelmen cycle from English.

mythology

The Winnebago had two types of narrative:

  • waikã , that-which-is-sacred, dealt with an irrevocably bygone time and thus events to which neither humans nor spirits had access.
  • worak , that-what-is-told, referred to the present everyday world, and its heroes were people.

The heroes of the waikã were either deities and spirits. Or they were demigods like the rogue who is called Trickster in the English language . Further cycles of myths deal with the hare and red horn, the twins and the two boys as their respective demigods. The Winnebago word for the rogue is Wakdjũnkaga , which literally means rogue. This is how the protagonist also describes himself:

“ Truly, I am rightly called a fool, the rogue! Because they kept calling me that, they really made me a fool, a rogue! "

Edition

The German edition is structured as follows:

  • Foreword by Paul Radin, written in Lugano in 1954.
  • The Schelmen Cycle, recorded by Sam Blowsnake.
  • The Winnebago and its Schelmen cycle by Paul Radin.
  • Mythological Epilegomena by Karl Kerényi.
  • On the psychology of the picaresque figure by CG Jung.
  • Index.

There is also a facsimile of two pages of the original recording made by Sam Blowsnake in the Winnebago syllabary. Below each line in syllabary is the line of the literal translation into English by John Baptiste.

Publications

Original works
  • Paul Radin, Karl Kerényi u. CG Jung: The divine rogue. A cycle of Indian myths . Schelmen cycle translated by Ilse Krämer. With Karl Kerényi a. CG Jung. Rhein-Verlag, Zurich 1954.
  • Paul Radin: The Trickster: A Study in American Indian Mythology . With comments by CG Jung and Karl Kerényi. Bell Publishing, New York 1956 a. 2nd ed. Schocken , New York 1972 ISBN 0805203516
Secondary literature
  • Wolfgang Stein: The cultural hero trickster of the Winnebago and his position towards comparable figures in the oral traditions of North American Indians. A criticism of the culture hero trickster conception of Paul Radin. Dissertation with Hans-Joachim Paproth at the University of Munich 1990. Holos, Bonn 1993 ISBN 3860970461
  • Ingeborg and Wolfgang Weber: On the trail of the divine rascal . Frommann-Holzboog, Stuttgart 1984 ISBN 3772808670

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Paul Radin, Karl Kerényi u. CG Jung: The divine rogue. A cycle of Indian myths . Rhein-Verlag, Zurich 1954, p. 93.
  2. ^ Paul Radin, Karl Kerényi u. CG Jung: The divine rogue. A cycle of Indian myths . Rhein-Verlag, Zurich 1954, p. 94.
  3. ^ Paul Radin, Karl Kerényi u. CG Jung: The divine rogue. A cycle of Indian myths . Rhein-Verlag, Zurich 1954, p. 102.
  4. ^ Paul Radin, Karl Kerényi u. CG Jung: The divine rogue. A cycle of Indian myths . Rhein-Verlag, Zurich 1954, p. 115.
  5. ^ Paul Radin, Karl Kerényi u. CG Jung: The divine rogue. A cycle of Indian myths . Rhein-Verlag, Zurich 1954, p. 34.