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Ron Broberg on January 1, 2009 - 1:10pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Actually, as I look closer, it seems that the pollyana is a toy poodle, but boy, can she run! (and she fights dirty, by undermining the Doomer-wolf's will to fight, distracting him with dumb jokes, sentimental songs- and showing up with heaping plates of food. What's a pessimist to do when there's food on the table?)

That's Coyote - not a toy poodle. While not exactly evil, Coyote can't be trusted either. But Coyote might have a bit of soft-heart towards humans, being involved one or another with their creation.
http://www.ilhawaii.net/~stony/lore47.html

BTW, I'm pretty sure that its Coyote's farts that cause Global Warming.

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jokuhl on January 1, 2009 - 2:05pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Poodle might be a trickster, Like Coyote or Crow.. but I don't think the fit is very good.

Nice Snark, though!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coyote_(mythology)

Homologues

Coyote has been compared to both the Scandinavian Loki, and also Prometheus, who shared with Coyote the trick of having stolen fire from the gods as a gift for mankind. Similarities can also be drawn with another trickster, the Polynesian demigod Māui, who also stole fire for mankind and introduced death to the world.

Claude Lévi-Strauss, French anthropologist proposed a structuralist theory that suggests that Coyote and Crow obtained mythic status because they are mediator animals between life and death.[8]

Bob

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jokuhl on January 1, 2009 - 2:10pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Actually, I don't know how I missed it.

My Pollyana dog-god might actually be a Beagle.. considering the origin of my TOD Handle.

Not always the most literal or practical, but Snoopy is a survivor, despite all the prognostications of defeat. Happiness is still a warm puppy..

as the old saying goes.. 'Everything is character'

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