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.
- Bedig-wajo (western)
- Ktaden (eastern)
- Glooscap
- King Arthur (Also English/British)
- 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)
- William Wallace (Scottish)
- Nuwa
- Chiyou
- Shennong
- Fu Xi
- Suiren
- Sun Wukong
- Leizu
- Cangjie
- Yellow Emperor
- Yao
- Shun
- Laozi
- Mazu
- Shujun
- Zhang Sanfeng
- Yu the Great
- Ji Fa
- Abderus
- Achilles
- Aeneas
- Ajax the Great
- Ajax the Lesser
- Amphitryon
- Antilochus
- Bellerophon
- Cadmus
- Cecrops
- Castor and Pollux
- Chrysippus
- Daedalus
- Diomedes
- Eleusis
- Eunostus
- Ganymede
- Hektor
- Heracles
- Icarus
- Iolaus
- Jason
- Lycaon (Arcadia)
- Meleager
- Odysseus (Ulysses)
- Orpheus
- Palamedes
- Pandion
- Perseus
- Phoroneus
- Prometheus
- Theseus
- Triptolemos
- Krishna
- Rama
- Vikramaditya
- Harishchandra
- Shivi
- Karna
- Arjuna
- Bhima
- Rishabha
- Yudhishthira
- Mamuni Mayan
- Bhishma
- Duryodhana
- Shakuni
- Bharat
- Draupadi
- Sita
- Parashurama
- Vishvamitra
- Lakshmi
- Hanuman
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.