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A culture hero is a mythological hero specific to some group (cultural, ethnic, religious, etc.) who changes the world through invention or discovery. A typical culture hero might be credited as the discoverer of fire, or agriculture, songs, tradition, law or religion, and is usually the most important legendary figure of a people, sometimes as the founder of its ruling dynasty.
Abenaki mythology edit
- Bedig-wajo (southern)
- Glooscap
- Ktaden (western)
Abrahamic Mythology (Judaism, Christianity, Islam) edit
Ainu mythology edit
Albanian mythology edit
Armenian mythology edit
Ashanti mythology edit
Australian Aboriginal mythology edit
Aztec mythology edit
Banks Islands mythology edit
Buddhist mythology edit
Caroline Islands mythology edit
Celtic mythology (Irish, Welsh, Scottish) edit
- King Arthur (Also English/British)
- Bendigeidfran (Welsh)
- Cúchulainn (Irish)
- Diarmuid Ua Duibhne (Irish)
- Fionn mac Cumhail (Finn McCool) (Irish)
- Gwydion (Welsh)
- Lugh (Irish) or Lleu Llaw Gyffes (Welsh)
- Oisín (Irish)
- Pryderi (Welsh)
- Pwyll (Welsh)
Chinese mythology edit
- Fuxi & Nüwa (first people)
- Suiren (fire)
- Shennong (agriculture, tea, & medicine)
- Shujun (animal husbandry)
- Zhuanxu (sacrifice)
- Chiyou (metal weaponry & Chinese wrestling)
- Ling Lun & Kui (music)
- Yellow Emperor (elegant clothing, zithers, mathematics, astronomy & time-keeping, chariots, kung fu, Chinese culture generally)
- Leizu (silk)
- Cangjie (writing)
- Ning Feng (pottery)
- Hui (揮, Huī) and Yimou (夷牟, Yímóu, archery)
- Yao & Shun (ideal rulership)
- Yu the Great (flood control)
- Duke of Zhou, Confucius, & Mencius (classic texts)
- Zhang Sanfeng (Tai Chi)
Egyptian mythology edit
English mythology edit
- King Arthur (Also Celtic)
- Beowulf
- Hengist and Horsa
- Lud son of Heli (Also Celtic)
- Robin Hood
- Sceafa
Etruscan mythology edit
Finnish mythology edit
Germanic mythology edit
Greek mythology edit
- Abderus
- Achilles
- Aeneas
- Ajax the Great
- Ajax the Lesser
- Amphitryon
- Antilochus
- Bellerophon
- Cadmus
- Castor and Pollux
- Cecrops
- Chrysippus
- Daedalus
- Dido
- Diomedes
- Eleusis
- Eunostus
- Ganymede
- Hektor
- Heracles
- Icarus
- Iolaus
- Jason
- Lycaon (king of Arcadia)
- Meleager
- Odysseus (Ulysses)
- Orpheus
- Palamedes
- Pandion
- Parthenope
- Perseus
- Phoroneus
- Prometheus
- Theseus
- Triptolemos
- Zeus
Hungarian mythology edit
Inca mythology edit
Indian Mythology edit
Ho-Chunk mythology edit
Inuit mythology edit
Japanese mythology edit
- Amaterasu
- Ame-no-tajikarao
- Fujiwara no Hidesato
- Izanagi
- Izanami
- Emperor Jimmu
- Empress Jingū
- Kibitsuhiko-no-mikoto
- Kintarō
- Kotoshironushi
- Minamoto no Yorimitsu
- Minamoto no Yoshimitsu
- Minamoto no Yoshitsune
- Minamoto no Yoshiie
- Miyamoto Musashi
- Momotarō
- Nomi no Sukune
- Emperor Ōjin (Hachiman)
- Ōkuninushi
- Ōmononushi
- Ono no Komachi
- Sakanoue no Tamuramaro
- Susanoo
- Taira no Sadamori
- Takemikazuchi
- Takeminakata
- Takenouchi no Sukune
- Takezaki Suenaga
- Takeda Shingen
- Tsukuyomi
- Ukanomitama (Inari Ōkami)
- Urabe no Suetake
- Urashima Tarō (Urashima-no-ko)
- Usui Sadamitsu
- Watanabe no Tsuna
- Watatsumi
- Yamato Takeru
Lakota mythology edit
Maya mythology edit
Mesopotamian mythology edit
Muisca mythology edit
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Norse mythology edit
Ohlone mythology edit
Ojibwe mythology edit
Persian mythology edit
Polynesian mythology edit
Roman mythology edit
- Aeneas
- Dido
- Egeria
- Caeculus
- Cloelia
- Evander of Pallene
- Founding of Rome
- Gaius Mucius Scaevola
- Gnaeus Marcius Coriolanus
- Hercules
- Horatii and Curiatii
- Horatius Cocles
- Janus
- Lucius Junius Brutus
- Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus
- Lucretia
- Manius Curius Dentatus
- Marcus Curtius
- Marcus Manlius Capitolinus
- Numa Pompilius
- Publius Decius Mus
- Romulus and Remus
- Romulus/Quirinus
- Servius Tullius
- Silvius
- Sibylline Books
- Tarpeia
- The Rape of the Sabine Women
- Titus Manlius Imperiosus Torquatus
- Verginia
Serbian mythology edit
- Saint Sava[1]
- Thracian horseman
- Svevlad
Slavic mythology edit
Solomon Islands mythology edit
Talamancan mythology edit
Tibetan mythology edit
Ugarit mythology edit
Ute mythology edit
Vietnamese mythology edit
Weenhayek mythology edit
Zuni mythology edit
See also edit
References edit
- ^ Žikić, Bojan (1997). Културни херој као "морални трикстер": Свети Сава у усменом предању Срба из БиХ [Culture hero as "moral trickster": Saint Sava in oral traditions of Serbs in BiH] (PDF). Bulletin of the Ethnographical Institute SASA (in Serbian). XLVI. Belgrade: 122–128. Retrieved 2010-07-05.