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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.
Shahnameh, the national epic of Greater Iran and world's longest epic poetry written by one poet; Mem and Zin, a Kurdish folk and love epic; Sirat Bani Hilal, an Arabic epic recounting the journeys and conquests of the Bani Hilal tribe; One Thousand and One Nights, also known as "the Arabian Nights", is a collection of Middle Eastern folktales
Culture of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (20 C, 13 P) Culture of the Republic of the Congo (18 C, 5 P) Culture of the Cook Islands (17 C, 16 P)
There around 400 million indigenous people in the world from 5,000 different cultures. most have had little to no contact with the modern world.
Painting of Bimbache of El Hierro by Leonardo Torriani, 1592 The San are the oldest inhabitants of Southern Africa. Indigenous communities, peoples, and nations are those which have a historical continuity with pre-invasion and pre-colonial societies that developed on their territories, and may consider themselves distinct from other sectors of the societies now prevailing on those territories ...
Yana Iskayeva/Getty Images. Round food items are considered to be a symbol of prosperity and good luck in many cultures due to their likeness to coins, and are thus consumed around the world in ...
Christmas is one of the most globally celebrated holidays in the world. But not everybody celebrates the same way—or even on the same day. While Christmas is, at its core, a Christian holiday ...
List of culture heroes; List of world folk-epics; Lists of deities; Lists of legendary creatures; National myth; Mythopoeia