List of culture heroes explained
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)
Ainu mythology
Banks Islands mythology
Caroline Islands mythology
Chinese mythology
- Fuxi & Nüwa (first people)
- Suiren (fire)
- Shennong (agriculture, tea, & medicine)
- Shujun (animal husbandry)
- Zhuanxu (sacrifice)
- Chiyou (metal weaponry & Chinese wrestling)
- Ling Lun & Kui (music)
- Yellow Emperor (elegant clothing, zithers, mathematics, astronomy & time-keeping, chariots, kung fu, Chinese culture generally)
- Leizu (silk)
- Cangjie (writing)
- Ning Feng (pottery)
- Hui (Chinese: 揮, Huī) and Yimou (Chinese: 夷牟, Yímóu, archery)
- Yao & Shun (ideal rulership)
- Yu the Great (flood control)
- Duke of Zhou, Confucius, & Mencius (classic texts)
- Zhang Sanfeng (Tai Chi)
See main article: Lists of figures in Germanic heroic legend.
Japanese mythology
Navajo mythology
Solomon Islands mythology
See also
Notes and References
- Žikić . Bojan . Bojan Žikić . 1997 . sr: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 . Bulletin of the Ethnographical Institute SASA . XLVI . 122–128 . Belgrade . http://www.rastko.rs/antropologija/glasnici-ei/46/bzikic.pdf . Serbian . 2010-07-05.
