Rickett shows that the trickster represents many different types ideas and deity's. One theme is the fact is the trickster is a villan/hero and a man. They can grant powers and take them away. Daniel Brinton explains that a word in the Algonkian language could have meant "light" or "white rabbit" he explained that given the high regard and God like representation it must have been the "light" meaning. But Dean of American anthropologists Franz Boas says why not both "the complex figure Evald from an earlier character who is basically self-centered amoral, and motivated by no higher impulses then his own desires" (Ricketts p329). This relates back the what it means to be a human in this area. The shaman were meant to interpret the teaching
