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[]

• Ae-oyna-kamuy

Australian Aboriginal mythology[]

• Bunjil
• I'wai
• Wurrunna

Abrahamic mythology (Judaism, Christianity, Islam)[]

• Abraham
• Adam
• Jesus (Christian and Islamic traditions only)
• Moses
• Muhammad (Islamic traditions only)
• Noah

Armenian mythology[]

• Anahit
• Aramazd
• Hayk
• Vahagn

Ashanti mythology[]

• Anansi

Aztec mythology[]

• Ce Acatl Topiltzin
• Quetzalcoatl

[]

• Qat

Buddhist mythology[]

• Avalokiteśvara/Guanyin
• Bodhisattvas
• Buddha
• Kṣitigarbha
• Maitreya
• Mañjuśrī
• Śakra

[]

• Isokelekel

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[]

• Anubis
• Bast
• Bes
• Horus
• Isis
• Menes
• Osiris
• Ptah-hotep
• Ra
• Set
• Thoth

English mythology[]

• King Arthur
• Beowulf
• Hengist and Horsa
• Lud son of Heli
• Robin Hood
• Sceafa

Etruscan mythology[]

• Tarchon
• Tyrrhenus

Finnish mythology[]

• Ilmarinen
• Lemminkäinen
• Väinämöinen

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[]

• Álmos
• Hunor and Magor

Inca mythology[]

• Manco Cápac
• Viracocha

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[]

• Red Horn

Inuit mythology[]

• Apanuugak
• Kiviuq

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[]

• Iktomi

Maya mythology[]

• Gukumatz
• Kukulkan
• Maya Hero Twins
• Maya maize god

Mesopotamian mythology[]

• Enkidu
• Gilgamesh
• Ziusudra

Navajo 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[]

• Nanabozho

Persian mythology[]

• Arash
• Babak Khorramdin
• Esfandiyār
• Fereydun
• Garshasp
• Giv
• Kaveh the Blacksmith
• Rostam
• Sām
• Siyâvash
• Sohrab
• Zoroaster

Polynesian mythology[]

• Atonga
• Māui
• Tangaroa

Roman mythology[]

• Aeneas
• Evander of Pallene
• Hercules
• Janus
• Marcus
• Romulus and Remus
• Romulus/Quirinus
• Silvius

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[]

• Sibú

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[]

• Ahayuta
• Awonawilona

See also[]

• Culture Hero
• List of folk heroes

References[]