Here is something I wrote a little while ago

...you see, I sort of think that in Christian theology the trickster is Christ. He takes on earthly form, just like the raven, and the coyote, in various western-hemispheric religions, then he plays the funniest trick of all where he "dies" and really has everyone there but they go to visit his corpse (forgive me, I don't know the story all that well) and it is gone...this is where he discloses that his "life" has been a trick, albeit a meaningful one intended to teach those on earth.

and humans get stronger by being able to laugh at their own mortality

Well here is what playwrite Tomson Highway says about the Trickster in the notes leading up to his play "The Rez"
"A Note on Nanabush

The dream world of North American Indian mythology is inhabited by the most fantastic creatures, beings, and events. Foremost among these beings is the 'Trickster' as pivotal and important a figure in the Native world as Christ is in the realm of Christian mythology. 'Weesageechack' in Cree, 'Nanabush' in Ojibway, 'Raven' in others, 'Coyote' in still others, this Trickster goes by many names and many guises. In fact, he can assume any guise he chooses. Essentially a comic, clownish sort of character, he teaches us about the nature and meaning of existence on the planet earth; he straddles the consciousness of man and that of God, the Great Spirit." (HighwayXII:1988)

Christ's resurrection happens at easter, ayostar, ostara...the spring equinox...symbolizing rebirth, or passover which symbolizes freedom in the Jewish religion
freedom from slavery, freedom from earthly existence, freedom from winter

I have a better chart I think than the one I did before

in the beggining
water/river
dragon

then this separates into

unknown/known
nature/ancestors
earth,moon/ sun,stars, sky,air
emotion/ reason
body/ mind

and then reconnects at

trickster
sexuality
art
fire