Trickster Gods Compared

Loki, Hermes and Set are the gods people file together as tricksters. The texts sort them apart. Hermes steals Apollo's cattle at a day old and is rewarded with an office; Loki helps the gods and destroys them, and ends bound; Set is not a trickster at all but the murderer of Osiris, whose one trick is a chest measured to his brother's body.