List of culture heroes
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
- Bedig-wajo (western)
- Glooscap
- Ktaden (eastern)
Ainu mythology
Abrahamic mythology (Judaism, Christianity, Islam)
Ashanti mythology
Banks Islands mythology
Caroline Islands mythology
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)
- William Wallace (Scottish)
Chinese mythology
- Cangjie
- Chiyou
- Fu Xi
- Hua Mulan
- Hou Ji
- 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
English mythology
- King Arthur
- Beowulf
- Hengist and Horsa
- Lud son of Heli
- Robin Hood
- Sceafa
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 (Arcadia)
- Meleager
- Odysseus (Ulysses)
- Orpheus
- Palamedes
- Pandion
- Perseus
- Phoroneus
- Prometheus
- Theseus
- Triptolemos
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
- Oda Nobunaga
- 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 (Urashima-no-ko)
- Usui Sadamitsu
- Watanabe no Tsuna
- Watatsumi
- Yamato Takeru
Navajo mythology
- Changing Woman
- The Diyin Dine
Ojibwe mythology
Serbian mythology
Slavic mythology
Solomon Islands mythology
- To-Kabinana
Vietnamese mythology
- Au Co
- Chử Đồng Tử
- Đam San
- Lac Long Quan
- Thanh Giong
- Thach Sanh
- Trạng Quỳnh
- Sơn Tinh
Weenhayek mythology
- Ahutsetajwaj
- Tapiatsa
Zuni mythology
- Yanauluha
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See also
- Culture Hero
- List of folk heroes
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). Belgrade. XLVI: 122–128. Retrieved 2010-07-05.
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