List of culture heroes
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 (western)
- Ktaden (eastern)
- Glooscap
Australian Aboriginal mythology
Abrahamic religion (Judaism, Christianity, Islam)
Armenian mythology
Ashanti mythology
Aztec mythology
Banks Islands mythology
Caroline Islands mythology
Celtic mythology (Irish, Welsh)
- King Arthur
- Cúchulainn (Irish)
- Diarmuid Ua Duibhne (Irish)
- Lug (Irish) or Lleu Llaw Gyffes (Welsh)
- Fionn mac Cumhail (Finn McCool) (Irish)
- Oisín (Irish)
- Pwyll (Welsh)
- Bendigeidfran (Welsh)
- Pryderi (Welsh)
- Gwydion (Welsh)
Chinese mythology
- Nuwa
- Chi-You
- Shennong
- Fu Xi
- Suiren
- Leizu
- Cangjie
- Yellow Emperor
- Yao
- Shun
- Guan Yu
- Laozi
- Mazu
- Shujun
- Bodhidharma
- Zhang Sanfeng
- Yu the Great
- Ji Fa
Egyptian mythology
·King Thutmose III (the third)
English mythology
Etruscan mythology
Finnish mythology
Greek mythology
- Achilles
- Bellerophon
- Cadmus
- Cecrops
- Castor and Pollux
- Hektor
- Diomedes
- Herakles
- Odysseus
- Palamedes
- Perseus
- Phoroneus
- Prometheus
- Theseus
- Triptolemos
Hungarian mythology
Inca mythology
Indian religion
- Krishna
- Rama
- Vikramaditya
- Harishchandra
- Shivi
- Karna
- Arjuna
- Bhima
- Rishabha
- Yudhishthira
- Mamuni Mayan
- Bhishma
- Duryodhana
- Ravan
- Shakuni
- Bharat
- Draupadi
- Sita
- Parashurama
- Vishvamitra
- Lakshmi
- Hanuman
Ho-Chunk mythology
Inuit mythology
Japanese mythology
Lakota mythology
Maya mythology
Mesopotamian mythology
Navajo mythology
- Changing Woman
- The Diyin dine
Norse mythology
Ohlone mythology
Ojibwe mythology
Persian mythology
Polynesian mythology
Roman mythology
Scottish mythology
Serbian mythology
Slavic mythology
Solomon Islands mythology
- To-Kabinana
Folklore of the United States
- Pilgrims
- Davy Crockett
- Daniel Boone
- Lewis Wetzel
- Francis Marion
- Kit Carson
- Paul Bunyan
- Johnny Appleseed
- John Henry
- Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
- Superman
Ute mythology
Vietnamese mythology
Weenhayek mythology
- Ahutsetajwaj
- Tapiatsa
Zuni mythology
- Yanauluha
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). Belgrade. XLVI: 122–128. Retrieved 2010-07-05.
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