Cosmic Play

The "Homeric Hymn to Hermes" catalogs Hermes's antics.

As was just mentioned, most tricksters are male and thus Jurich (1998) proposes a female version of the trickster who she calls the tricksta

In less rational times, trickster tales were considered sacred, because they describe the world and are often creation stories.

First of all, as tricksters are ultimately indefinable, they evade description.  Don’t take my word for it, Hynes (1993)