Māra and Śiva: Tricksters of Illusion, Teachers of Liberation
Journal of Asian Linguistic Anthropology 2025 Pavlos Kavouras
This paper explores the trickster as a philosophical and sonic modality of consciousness through the figures of Śiva, Krishna, Nārada, and Māra. Moving beyond Western binaries of good and evil, truth and deception, it engages non-Abrahamic ontologies in which disruption, illusion, and mischief are not oppositional to knowledge, but constitutive. Trickster logic unfolds abductively—neither...