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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
- Bedig-wajo (southern)
- Glooscap
- Ktaden (western)
Abrahamic Mythology (Judaism, Christianity, Islam)
Ainu mythology
Albanian mythology
Armenian mythology
Ashanti mythology
Australian Aboriginal mythology
Aztec mythology
Banks Islands mythology
Buddhist mythology
Caroline Islands mythology
Celtic mythology (Irish, Welsh, Scottish)
- 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
- 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
English mythology
- King Arthur (Also Celtic)
- Beowulf
- Hengist and Horsa
- Lud son of Heli (Also Celtic)
- Robin Hood
- Sceafa
Etruscan mythology
Finnish mythology
Germanic mythology
Greek mythology
- 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
Inca mythology
Indian Mythology
- Arjuna
- Ashoka
- Barbarika
- Bharata
- Bharat
- Bhima
- Bhishma
- Draupadi
- Ganesha
- Guru Nanak
- Hanuman
- Harishchandra
- Karna
- Krishna
- Mahavira
- Manu
- Mamuni Mayan
- Meghnad
- Nakul
- Parashurama
- Rama
- Rishabha
- Sahadeva
- King Shivi
- Sita
- Vikramaditya
- Yudhishthira
Ho-Chunk mythology
Inuit mythology
Japanese mythology
- 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
Maya mythology
Mesopotamian mythology
Muisca mythology
Norse mythology
- Arngrim
- Bödvar Bjarki
- Egil
- Helgi
- Hothbrodd
- Loki
- Odin
- Ragnar Lodbrok
- Sigurd Fafnersbane
- Starkad
- Svipdagr
- Thor
- Vili and Vé
Ohlone mythology
Ojibwe mythology
Persian mythology
- Arash
- Babak Khorramdin
- Esfandiyār
- Fereydun
- Garshasp
- Giv
- Kaveh the Blacksmith
- Rostam
- Sām
- Siyâvash
- Sohrab
- Zoroaster
Polynesian mythology
Roman mythology
- 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
- Saint Sava[1]
- Thracian horseman
- Svevlad
Slavic mythology
- Alyosha Popovich
- Dažbog
- Dobrynya Nikitich
- Ilya Muromets
- Ivan Tsarevich
- Juraj Jánošík
- Krakus
- Mikula Selyaninovich
- Misizla
- Nikita
- Vasily Buslayev
- Volga Svyatoslavich
Solomon Islands mythology
Talamancan mythology
Tibetan mythology
Ugarit mythology
Ute mythology
Vietnamese mythology
Weenhayek mythology
Zuni mythology
See also
References
- ^ 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.
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