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.
Abenaki mythology[]
- (southern)
- Glooscap
- (western)
Ainu mythology[]
Australian Aboriginal mythology[]
Abrahamic mythology (Judaism, Christianity, Islam)[]
- Abraham
- Adam
- Jesus (Christian and Islamic traditions only)
- Moses
- Muhammad (Islamic traditions only)
- Noah
Armenian mythology[]
Ashanti mythology[]
- Anansi
Aztec mythology[]
- Ce Acatl Topiltzin
- Quetzalcoatl
[]
Buddhist mythology[]
- Avalokiteśvara/Guanyin
- Bodhisattvas
- Buddha
- Kṣitigarbha
- Maitreya
- Mañjuśrī
- Śakra
[]
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)
- Lug (Irish) or Lleu Llaw Gyffes (Welsh)
- Oisín (Irish)
- Pryderi (Welsh)
- Pwyll (Welsh)
Chinese mythology[]
- Cangjie
- Chiyou
- Fu Xi
- Hua Mulan
- Hou Ji
- Hou Yi
- Ji Fa
- Laozi
- Leizu
- Mazu
- Nuwa
- Shennong
- Shujun
- Suiren
- Shun
- Sun Wukong
- Erlang Shen
- Nezha
- Lu Bu
- Guan Yu
- Emperor Yao
- Yellow Emperor
- Yu the Great
- Zhang Sanfeng
Egyptian mythology[]
English mythology[]
- King Arthur
- Beowulf
- Hengist and Horsa
- Lud son of Heli
- 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
- Diomedes
- Eleusis
- Eunostus
- Ganymede
- Hektor
- Heracles
- Icarus
- Iolaus
- Jason
- Lycaon (king of Arcadia)
- Meleager
- Odysseus (Ulysses)
- Orpheus
- Palamedes
- Pandion
- Perseus
- Phoroneus
- Prometheus
- Theseus
- Triptolemos
Hungarian mythology[]
Inca mythology[]
Indian mythology[]
- Arjuna
- Barbarika
- Bharat
- Bhima
- Bhishma
- Draupadi
- 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 ()
- Usui Sadamitsu
- Watanabe no Tsuna
- Watatsumi
- Yamato Takeru
Lakota mythology[]
Maya mythology[]
- Gukumatz
- Kukulkan
- Maya Hero Twins
- Maya maize god
Mesopotamian mythology[]
[]
- Changing Woman
- The
Norse mythology[]
- Arngrim
- Bödvar Bjarki
- Egil
- Helgi
- Hothbrodd
- Loki
- Odin
- Ragnar Lodbrok
- Sigurd Fafnersbane
- Starkad
- Svipdagr
- Thor
- Vili and Vé
Ohlone mythology[]
- Kaknu
Ojibwe mythology[]
Persian mythology[]
- Arash
- Babak Khorramdin
- Esfandiyār
- Fereydun
- Garshasp
- Giv
- Kaveh the Blacksmith
- Rostam
- Sām
- Siyâvash
- Sohrab
- Zoroaster
Polynesian mythology[]
Roman mythology[]
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
[]
Talamancan mythology[]
Ute mythology[]
- Cin-an-ev
Vietnamese mythology[]
- Au Co
- Chử Đồng Tử
- Đam San
- Lac Long Quan
- Thanh Giong
- Thach Sanh
- Trạng Quỳnh
- Sơn Tinh
Weenhayek mythology[]
Zuni mythology[]
See also[]
- Culture Hero
- List of folk heroes
References[]
- ^ (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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