culture-hero

Here the archetypes of god as tyrant and 'Satan' as culture-hero are evident.

The Watcher: The New Zealand Voice of the Left Hand Path #8 1991

Prometheus was he who aligned himself with Man, the culture-hero who gave Man the gifts of fire, knowledge of astronomy, writing, domestication of animals, seacraft, medicine, metallurgy, all those arts which elevate Nab from cave-dwelling ignorance unto the heights of Civilization.

The Watcher: The New Zealand Voice of the Left Hand Path #8 1991

By turning him into a culture-hero and eliminating the super - natural elements in the myths, it was possible to think of him as a primitive king who had taught his subjects how to live in communities, gave them laws, no longer

PRIMITIVISM GEORGE BOAS 1968

(The mind refuses to imagine the hash that singular culture-hero would have made of Mama and Papa.)

The Little Foxes Revived Hardwick, Elizabeth 1967

Wäinämöinen, the culture-hero of the Finns, whom the _Kalevala_ has immortalized, we find some striking tributes to the child-spirit.

The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day Alexander F. Chamberlain

At this moment, Manabozbo [the culture-hero or demi-god of these Indians] happened to pass by.

The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day Alexander F. Chamberlain

Born of a virgin mother were also Quetzalcoatl, the culture-hero of

The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day Alexander F. Chamberlain

In a myth of the Menomoni Indians, reported by Dr.W. J. Hoffman, we read that Manabush [the great culture-hero] and a twin brother were born the sons of the virgin daughter of an old woman named Nokómis.

The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day Alexander F. Chamberlain

Gluskap, the culture-hero of the Micmacs, once changed "a mighty man" into the cedar-tree.

The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day Alexander F. Chamberlain

Manabozho, the culture-hero of the Chippeways and other Algonkian tribes of the Great Lakes, and probably identical with his eastern analogue,

The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day Alexander F. Chamberlain