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

Abrahamic Mythology (Judaism, Christianity, Islam)

Ainu mythology

Albanian mythology

Armenian mythology

Ashanti mythology

Australian Aboriginal mythology

Aztec mythology

Banks Islands mythology

Buddhist mythology

Caroline Islands mythology

Celtic mythology (Irish, Welsh, Scottish)

Chinese mythology

Egyptian mythology

English mythology

Etruscan mythology

Finnish mythology

Germanic mythology

Greek mythology

Hungarian mythology

Inca mythology

Indian Mythology

Ho-Chunk mythology

Inuit mythology

Japanese mythology

Lakota mythology

Maya mythology

Mesopotamian mythology

Muisca mythology

Navajo mythology

Norse mythology

Ohlone mythology

Ojibwe mythology

Persian mythology

Polynesian mythology

Roman mythology

Serbian mythology

Slavic mythology

Solomon Islands mythology

Talamancan mythology

Tibetan mythology

Ugarit mythology

Ute mythology

Vietnamese mythology

Weenhayek mythology

Zuni mythology

See also

References

  1. ^ 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.