List of culture heroes
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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.
Contents
- 1 Abenaki mythology
- 2 Australian Aboriginal mythology
- 3 Abrahamic mythology (Judaism, Christianity, Islam)
- 4 Armenian mythology
- 5 Ashanti mythology
- 6 Aztec mythology
- 7 Banks Islands mythology
- 8 Caroline Islands mythology
- 9 Celtic mythology (Irish, Welsh)
- 10 Chinese mythology
- 11 Egyptian mythology
- 12 English mythology
- 13 Etruscan mythology
- 14 Finnish mythology
- 15 Greek mythology
- 16 Hungarian mythology
- 17 Inca mythology
- 18 Indian mythology
- 19 Ho-Chunk mythology
- 20 Inuit mythology
- 21 Japanese mythology
- 22 Lakota mythology
- 23 Maya mythology
- 24 Mesopotamian mythology
- 25 Navajo mythology
- 26 Norse mythology
- 27 Ohlone mythology
- 28 Ojibwe mythology
- 29 Persian mythology
- 30 Polynesian mythology
- 31 Roman mythology
- 32 Scottish mythology
- 33 Serbian mythology
- 34 Slavic mythology
- 35 Solomon Islands mythology
- 36 Folklore of the United States
- 37 Ute mythology
- 38 Vietnamese mythology
- 39 Weenhayek mythology
- 40 Zuni mythology
- 41 References
Abenaki mythology[edit]
- Bedig-wajo (western)
- Ktaden (eastern)
- Glooscap
Australian Aboriginal mythology[edit]
Abrahamic mythology (Judaism, Christianity, Islam)[edit]
Armenian mythology[edit]
Ashanti mythology[edit]
Aztec mythology[edit]
Banks Islands mythology[edit]
Caroline Islands mythology[edit]
Celtic mythology (Irish, Welsh)[edit]
Chinese mythology[edit]
- 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[edit]
English mythology[edit]
Etruscan mythology[edit]
Finnish mythology[edit]
Greek mythology[edit]
- Achilles
- Bellerophon
- Cadmus
- Cecrops
- Castor and Pollux
- Hektor
- Diomedes
- Herakles
- Odysseus
- Palamedes
- Perseus
- Phoroneus
- Prometheus
- Theseus
- Triptolemos
Hungarian mythology[edit]
Inca mythology[edit]
Indian mythology[edit]
- Krishna
- Rama
- Vikramaditya
- Harishchandra
- Shivi
- Karna
- Arjuna
- Bhima
- Rishabha
- Yudhishthira
- Mamuni Mayan
- Bhishma
- Duryodhana
- Ravan
- Shakuni
- Bharat
- Draupadi
- Sita
- Parashurama
- Vishvamitra
Ho-Chunk mythology[edit]
Inuit mythology[edit]
Japanese mythology[edit]
Lakota mythology[edit]
Maya mythology[edit]
Mesopotamian mythology[edit]
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Norse mythology[edit]
Ohlone mythology[edit]
Ojibwe mythology[edit]
Persian mythology[edit]
Polynesian mythology[edit]
Roman mythology[edit]
Scottish mythology[edit]
Serbian mythology[edit]
Slavic mythology[edit]
Solomon Islands mythology[edit]
Folklore of the United States[edit]
- Pilgrims
- Davy Crockett
- Daniel Boone
- Lewis Wetzel
- Francis Marion
- Kit Carson
- Paul Bunyan
- Johnny Appleseed
- John Henry
- Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
Ute mythology[edit]
Vietnamese mythology[edit]
Weenhayek mythology[edit]
Zuni mythology[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) (Belgrade) XLVI: 122–128. Retrieved 2010-07-05.
