Gunnerkrigg Court 3: Mystery Solved!

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Were the stars always there, and humans, by seeing shapes in those stars and assigning a reason for those shapes, end up creating beings that placed those stars? Which comes back to a question from earlier...

In humans seeing the stars and attributing it to the beings, did the beings they created retroactively place the stars so humans could attribute the placement to them?

Well, the other way to parse what Jones said is that Coyote did not do it, but he believes that he did, because humans believe so. Certainly, Jones experience that they were there long before any creatures were on earth would support that.

The phrase "Coyote will say he did it himself, and it is not a lie" is likewise interesting. A lie is a deliberate misstatement of facts. If I honestly believe something which is not true, I can state it, and I won't be lying - but that still will not make it true. So, Coyote might not be lying, but that does not make what he says to be the "objective" truth.