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)
  • Ktaden (eastern)
  • Glooscap

Australian Aboriginal mythology

Abrahamic mythology (Judaism, Christianity, Islam)

Armenian mythology

Ashanti mythology

Aztec mythology

Banks Islands mythology

Caroline Islands mythology

Celtic mythology (Irish, Welsh, Scottish)

Chinese mythology

Egyptian mythology

English mythology

Etruscan mythology

Finnish mythology

Greek mythology

Hungarian mythology

Inca mythology

Indian mythology

Ho-Chunk mythology

Inuit mythology

Japanese mythology

Lakota mythology

Maya mythology

Mesopotamian mythology

Norse mythology

Ohlone mythology

Ojibwe mythology

Persian mythology

Polynesian mythology

Roman mythology

Roman/Italian

Serbian mythology

Slavic mythology

Solomon Islands mythology

  • To-Kabinana

Folklore of the United States

Ute mythology

Vietnamese mythology

Weenhayek mythology

  • Ahutsetajwaj
  • Tapiatsa

Zuni mythology

  • Yanauluha

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). Belgrade. XLVI: 122–128. Retrieved 2010-07-05.
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