Culture Hero
119 books featuring this archetype
The Culture Hero introduces essential skills, fire, or institutions. By outwitting forces of chaos, this figure elevates human life above the natural state.
Rigveda
Anonymous
1200-900 BCE
Indian, Hindu
Popol Vuh
Anonymous
1554-1703 CE
Mesoamerican, Mayan
Kojiki
O no Yasumaro
712 CE
East Asian, Japanese
Nihon Shoki
Prince Toneri
720 CE
East Asian, Japanese
Atrahasis
Anonymous
1700 BCE
Mesopotamian, Akkadian
The Mabinogion
Anonymous
1100-1410 CE
Celtic, Welsh
Classic of Poetry
Anonymous
400-200 BCE
East Asian, Chinese
Homeric Hymns
Anonymous
700-500 BCE
Greek
Prometheus Bound
Aeschylus
500-400 BCE
Greek
Epic of Sundiata
Anonymous
1900-2000 CE
African, Mandinka
Kebra Nagast
Anonymous
1314-1321 CE
African, Ethiopian
The History of the Kings of Britain
Geoffrey of Monmouth
1136 CE
Celtic, Welsh
Records of the Grand Historian
Sima Qian
109-91 BCE
East Asian, Chinese
Argonautica
Apollonius of Rhodes
200-100 BCE
Greek
Romulus and Remus
Livy
27-25 BCE
Roman
Anansi Stories
Oral Tradition
1800-2000 CE
African, Akan
Dreamtime Stories
Oral Tradition
1800-2000 CE
Pacific, Aboriginal Australian
Ifá Corpus
Oral Tradition
1200-2000 CE
African, Yoruba
Book of Invasions
Anonymous
1000-1200 CE
Celtic, Irish
Classic of Documents
Various
600-200 BCE
East Asian, Chinese
Huainanzi
Liu An
139-122 BCE
East Asian, Chinese
Brahmanas
Anonymous
800-500 BCE
Indian, Hindu
Florentine Codex
Bernardino de Sahagún and Nahua collaborators
1540-1577 CE
Mesoamerican, Aztec
Royal Commentaries of the Incas
Inca Garcilaso de la Vega
1609 CE
Mesoamerican, Inca