ABSTRACT
The trickster is in between in knowledge, as always, even in between the human and the divine, the kind of in-between-ness that defines the unreality of the trickster. The knowledge and the language skills of the trickster are again in between human and divine knowledge: in every possible senses of the term. Eros is part of the flux, and man also has to enter the liminal flux in order to get in touch with Eros. It is thus necessary to review more closely the connections between Eros, ritual, and the trickster, especially the sacrificing trickster, a central concern for us. It is that the strange crossing-over between prehistoric ritual and Eros, stumbled upon by the trickster, can be clarified. Eros as a trickster appeared in Palaeolithic images already with its complete attributes, and it never really progressed or changed up to the present day.
