Zeus As A Trickster God

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I can see how you think Zeus could be considered a trickster god. Through your logical could we define every god as a trickster god? Since every god that we have covered plays mind games with humans in good ways and in horrible ways, and then we define a trickster in actions of the gods. A trickster god will ruin lives of a human or teach a human a lesson but which actions of a god can be considered a trick. In simpler terms, define a trickster god as a god that can fool a human into doing an action with the god but was any action of a god, not a trick.

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