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Open Question: Divine Laughter

Mars and Venus Surprised by Vulcan by Joach im Anthonisz. Wtewael (Dutch, 1566–1638) Reading Jung's Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious (Volume 9, Part I), I have been thinking about Greek mythology and how the Olympian gods had a sense of humor. They played pranks on each other and overall enjoyed funny situations with full display of laughter. Just think about the laughing gods that gathered when Hephaestus's trapped Ares and Aphrodite in bed together. I also think about the Native-American tradition of the Trickster (for example, Navajo and Winnebago lore), the pranks of Loki is the Norse tradition, and other "trickster" deities in Hinduism, and so on. So my question is, where is the Trickster aspect in the Judeo-Christian tradition?  The amputation of an aspect of the divinity should have, as far as I understand, momentous consequences for culture and individual psyche. I keep thinking about how Jung pointed out how the Christian religion has pretty

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