List of culture heroes
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A culture hero is a mythological hero specific to a group of people (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 one of the most important legendary figures of a people, sometimes as the founder of its ruling dynasty.
- Bedig-wajo (southern)
- Glooscap
- Ktaden (western)
- 12 Apostles
- Abraham
- Adam
- Ali
- Joseph
- Dhu al-Qarnayn
- Gabriel
- Dante Alighieri
- God
- Allah
- Yahweh
- Husayn ibn Ali
- Moses
- Michael
- Raphael
- Mahdi
- Noah
- Israfil
- Heavenly Host
- David
- Elijah
- The Prodigal Son
- John the Baptist
- Jesus
- Muhammad
- Saint George
- Samson
- Solomon
Banks Islands mythology
[edit]Caroline Islands mythology
[edit]- King Arthur (Also English/British)
- Bendigeidfran (Welsh)
- Cúchulainn (Irish)
- Diarmuid Ua Duibhne (Irish)
- Fionn mac Cumhail (Finn McCool) (Irish)
- Gwydion (Welsh)
- Lugh (Irish) or Lleu Llaw Gyffes (Welsh)
- Oisín (Irish)
- Pryderi (Welsh)
- Pwyll (Welsh)
- Five Elders
- Fuxi
- Suiren
- Shujun
- Zhuanxu
- Ling Lun
- Kui
- Yao
- Shun
- Yu the Great
- Duke of Zhou
- Confucius
- Mencius
- Shen
- Athelstan
- Beowulf
- Hengist and Horsa
- Merlin
- Lud son of Heli (Also Celtic)
- Robin Hood
- Knights of the Round Table
- Sceafa
- Atreus
- Agamemnon
- Abderus
- Achilles
- Actaeon
- Ajax the Great
- Ajax the Lesser
- Amphitryon
- Antilochus
- Argonauts
- Bellerophon
- Cadmus
- Castor and Pollux
- Cecrops
- Chiron
- Chrysippus
- Daedalus
- Dido
- Diomedes
- Eleusis
- Eunostus
- Ganymede
- Hektor
- Icarus
- Iolaus
- Oedipus
- Leonidas
- Lycaon
- Meleager
- Midas
- Menelaus
- Niobe
- Nestor
- Neoptolemus
- Odysseus
- Orion
- Orpheus
- Palamedes
- Pandion
- Parthenope
- Pandora
- Perseus
- Phoroneus
- Sisyphus
- Theseus
- Tantalus
- Tiresias
- Telegonus
- Teucer
- Triptolemos
- Theoús
- Arjuna
- Ashoka
- Barbarika
- Bharata
- Bharat
- Bhima
- Bhishma
- Draupadi
- Chandragupta Maurya
- Ganesha
- Guru Nanak
- Hanuman
- Harishchandra
- Karna
- Krishna
- Mahavira
- Manu
- Mamuni Mayan
- Meghnad
- Nakul
- Parashurama
- Rama
- Rishabha
- Sahadeva
- King Shivi
- Shiva
- Sita
- Vikramaditya
- Yudhishthira
- Kami
- Abe Masakatsu
- Akechi Mitsuhide
- Ashikaga Takauji
- Date Masamune
- Honda Tadakatsu
- Minamoto no Tametomo
- Minamoto no Yoritomo
- Minamoto no Yoshitsune
- Miura Yoshimoto
- Miyamoto Musashi
- Takeda Nobushige
- Takeda Shingen
- Tomoe Gozen
- Tokugawa Ieyasu
- Toyotomi Hideyori
- Benkei
- Fujiwara no Hidesato
- Emperor Jimmu
- Empress Jingū
- Kato Kiyomasa
- Kibitsuhiko-no-mikoto
- Kintarō
- Kusunoki Masashige
- Kotoshironushi
- Minamoto no Yorimitsu
- Minamoto no Yoshimitsu
- Minamoto no Yoshitsune
- Minamoto no Yoshiie
- Miyamoto Musashi
- Momotarō
- Nomi no Sukune
- Emperor Ōjin
- Ōkuninushi
- Ōmononushi
- Ono no Komachi
- Oda Nobunaga
- Sakanoue no Tamuramaro
- Sanada Yukimura
- Taira no Sadamori
- Takemikazuchi
- Takeminakata
- Takenouchi no Sukune
- Takezaki Suenaga
- Takeda Shingen
- Tokugawa Ieyasu
- Toyotomi Hideyoshi
- Tsukuyomi
- Urabe no Suetake
- Urashima Tarō
- Uesugi Kenshin
- Uesugi Kagekatsu
- Usui Sadamitsu
- Watanabe no Tsuna
- Yamato Takeru
- Amleth
- Arngrim
- Bödvar Bjarki
- Bjorn Ironside
- Cnut the Great
- Egil
- Egil Skallagrimsson
- Eric Bloodaxe
- Erik The Red
- Sweyn Forkbeard
- Harald Bluetooth
- Harald Hardrada
- Harald Fairhair
- Helgi
- Hothbrodd
- Ymir
- Norns
- Ivar the Boneless
- Ragnar Lodbrok
- Rollo
- Gunnar Hamundarson
- Sigurd Fafnersbane
- Starkad
- Svipdagr
- Lief Erikson
- Freydis Eiriksdottir
- Guðs
- Ardashir-e Bābakān
- Arash
- Afrasiab
- Abu Muslim Khorasani
- Amir Arsalan
- Anahita
- Babak Khorramdin
- Banu Goshasp
- Bahram-e Gur
- Bahram Chobin
- Bizhan
- Borzu son of Sohrab
- Cyrus the Great
- Darab Shah
- Esfandiyār
- Farhād
- Faramarz
- Fereydun
- Garshasp
- Giv
- Goudarz
- Hasan-i-Sabbah
- Hushang
- Iraj son of Fereydun
- Jamshid
- Kaveh the Blacksmith
- Kay Kawad
- Kay Kāvus
- Kay Khosrow
- Kay Lohrasp
- Kay Bahman
- Keyumars
- Khosrow Anushiravan
- Khosrow Parviz
- Kush the Tusked
- Kiya Buzurg-Ummid
- Mashya and Mashyana
- Nariman
- Rostam
- Sām
- Salm son of Fereydun
- Siyâvash
- Sohrab
- Tahmurath
- Tous son of Nowzar
- Tur son of Fereydun
- Vishtaspa
- Zarēr
- Yazatas
- Zoroaster
- Dii Consentes
- Imperatoris
- Aeneas
- Dido
- Egeria
- Caeculus
- Cloelia
- Evander of Pallene
- Gaius Mucius Scaevola
- Gnaeus Marcius Coriolanus
- Horatii and Curiatii
- Horatius Cocles
- Lupa
- Julius Caesar
- Lucius Junius Brutus
- Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus
- Lucretia
- Manius Curius Dentatus
- Marcus Curtius
- Marcus Furius Camillus
- Marcus Manlius Capitolinus
- Numa Pompilius
- Romulus
- Scipio Africanus
- Servius Tullius
- Silvius
- Tarpeia
- Titus Manlius Imperiosus Torquatus
- Verginia