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A culture hero is a mythological hero specific to some group (cultural, ethnic, racial, 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 and religion, and is usually the most important legendary figure of a people, sometimes as the founder of its ruling dynasty. The hero... Read enhanced Wikipedia article

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taught :
skills, use and arts.

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Bunjil The Kulin people claim he is a totemic culture hero who taught them all the important skills of life, whereas the Wurundjeri people claim he created mankind.

Apollo He was also a culture-hero and taught humanity dairy skills and the use of nets and traps in hunting, as well as how to cultivate olives.

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Apollo He was also a culture-hero and taught humanity dairy skills and the use of nets and traps in hunting, as well as how to cultivate olives.

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Kamui Ae-oina Kamui, a culture hero who taught humans the domestic arts

appear in :
genealogies, text and Cantos Cantos.

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Māui (Hawaiian mythology) In Hawaiian mythology, Māui is a culture hero who appears in several different genealogies.

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Danel Danel was a culture hero who appears in an incomplete Ugaritic text of the fourteenth century BCE at Ras Shamra, where the name is rendered DNL, "El is judge".

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List of cultural references in The Cantos Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta - Condottiero and patron of the arts who is the first great culture hero to appear in The Cantos Cantos VIII - XI, Canto XXI

did :
Tangaroa, Tane and god.

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Hina (goddess) In some traditions, the trickster and culture hero Maui has a wife named Hina, as do the gods Tane and Tangaroa.

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Hina (goddess) In some traditions, the trickster and culture hero Maui has a wife named Hina, as do the gods Tane and Tangaroa.

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Hina (goddess) In some traditions, the trickster and culture hero Maui has a wife named Hina, as do the gods Tane and Tangaroa.

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    Culture hero

    A culture hero is a mythological hero specific to some group (cultural, ethnic, racial, religious, etc.) who changes the world through invention or discovery.
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    Hero

    A hero (heroine in female) (Ancient Greek: ἥρως, hḗrōs), in Greek mythology and folklore, was originally a demigod, their cult being one of the most distinctive features of ancient Greek religion. ... Culture hero
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    Descendants of Cain

    in Beowulf: Grendel, Grendel's Mother ... Culture hero
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    Abaangui

    Abaangui is the moon god in the mythology of the Guaraní people of central South America. ... He is described as being a culture hero of the Guaraní, with his brother Zaguaguayu.
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    List of Etruscan mythological figures

    This is a list of deities and legendary figures found in the Etruscan mythology. ... An Etruscan culture hero who, with his brother, Tyrrhenus, founded the Etruscan Federation of twelve cities.
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    Anansi

    Anansi the trickster is one of the most important characters of West African and Caribbean folklore. ... Anansi is a culture hero, who acts on behalf of Nyame, his father and the sky god.
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    I'wai

    In Australian Aboriginal mythology, I'wai is the culture hero of the Koko Y'ao. I'wai was a crocodilian man who brought most of the Koko Y'ao religious rites and ceremonies.
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    Azo

    Azo compound, chemistry functional group and class of compounds ... For the Georgian culture hero, see Azo (Georgian history)
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    Folk hero

    A folk hero is type of hero, real, fictional, or mythological. ... Culture hero
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    Nanabozho

    In Anishinaabe mythology, particularly among the Ojibwa, Nanabozho is a spirit, and figures prominently in their storytelling, including the story of the world's creation. Nanabozho is the Ojibwe trickster figure and culture hero (these two archetypes are often combined into a single figure in First Nations mythologies).

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