"Think about Bugs Bunny and his crafty, usually violent, shenanigans, which all too often include drag. He’s right there with the best clowns, both in the shapeshifting and in the elaborate solutions to serious problems. He turns deadly weapons against their wielders, but almost just as often will dress up in a skirt, heels, and lashes and seduce his adversary out of the threatening violence."
Spiritually he is descended from the rabbit trickster figures of Indigenous, African and Black American culture, who themselves are inventions or projections of shamanism.
Thanks for the reminder– returning to my own work on satyrs and fauns in ancient Rome, this was a fun synchronicity.
O nice!!
"Think about Bugs Bunny and his crafty, usually violent, shenanigans, which all too often include drag. He’s right there with the best clowns, both in the shapeshifting and in the elaborate solutions to serious problems. He turns deadly weapons against their wielders, but almost just as often will dress up in a skirt, heels, and lashes and seduce his adversary out of the threatening violence."
Spiritually he is descended from the rabbit trickster figures of Indigenous, African and Black American culture, who themselves are inventions or projections of shamanism.
Yes! Bre’r Rabbit (or Zumo the Hare) himself!