List_of_culture_heroes

List of culture heroes

List of culture heroes

Mythological savory, creators, teachers and inventors.


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 (southern)
  • Glooscap
  • Ktaden (western)

Banks Islands mythology

Caroline Islands mythology

Solomon Islands mythology

  • To-Kabinana
  • Ahutsetajwaj
  • Tapiatsa

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.

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