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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

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Abrahamic Mythology (Judaism, Christianity, Islam)

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Ainu mythology

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Albanian mythology

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Armenian mythology

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Ashanti mythology

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Australian Aboriginal mythology

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Aztec mythology

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Banks Islands mythology

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Buddhist mythology

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Caroline Islands mythology

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Celtic mythology (Irish, Welsh, Scottish)

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Chinese mythology

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Egyptian mythology

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English mythology

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Etruscan mythology

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Finnish mythology

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Germanic mythology

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Main article: Lists of figures in Germanic heroic legend

Greek mythology

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Hungarian mythology

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Inca mythology

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Indian Mythology

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Ho-Chunk mythology

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Inuit mythology

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Japanese mythology

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Lakota mythology

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Maya mythology

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Mesopotamian mythology

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Muisca mythology

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Norse mythology

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Ohlone mythology

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Ojibwe mythology

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Persian mythology

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Polynesian mythology

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Roman mythology

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Serbian mythology

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Slavic mythology

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Solomon Islands mythology

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Talamancan mythology

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Tibetan mythology

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Ugarit mythology

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Ute mythology

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Vietnamese mythology

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Weenhayek mythology

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Zuni mythology

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See also

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References

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  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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