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culture hero

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culture hero

Mythological figure who secures for humanity the attributes of culture either in cooperation with or in opposition to the gods. The culture hero is often an animal or trickster figure, the most common motif being the animal who steals fire from the gods for the benefit of humans. In other stories the culture hero is human and must overcome the opposition of animals. In still others, the culture hero must travel to an inaccessible place to reach a life-giving or healing tree or other plant; supernatural animals may assist or obstruct him. See also Prometheus.



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An Iroquoian culture hero, he converted to the cause of Deganawida, another culture hero who had taken on as his mission no less than the cessation of feuding among Mohawk, Seneca, Oneida, and others.
Shades of Hiawatha: Staging Indians, Making Americans 1880-1930 by Krech, Shepard, III / Journal of Social History
Viewing the paintings today one is inclined to look at them with a nostalgic eye, nostalgic for a time when there was hope in Zaire, nostalgic for a time when there was a burgeoning middle class and a market for popular painting in Elizabethville (Lubumbashi), and particularly nostalgic in a sort of sympathetic way for the hopeful figure of Patrice Lumumba, who is so clearly the culture hero of Tshibumba's history (see Jewsiewicki 1999, Roberts and Roberts 1999).
Congo in Cartoons: 102 Paintings by Tshibumba by Moyer, Eileen / African Arts
If indeed Stagolee is a rebellious black culture hero, how sad that so much of his violence is directed against other black males and women rather than the underlying enemies.
Cecil Brown. Stagolee Shot Billy by Margolies, Edward / African American Review
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