Good and bad culture heroes

Motif

Good and bad culture heroes.

Mythological motifs. · Demigods and culture heroes. · Nature of the culture hero (demigod). · view the constellation · filed as A525

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Scholars’ trail — 4references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

S. Am. Indian (Guarani)Métraux BBAE CXLIII (3) 93
MelanesiaDixon 122ff.
general Walapai: Alexander N. Am. 180
general Polynesia, Micronesia: ibid. 122 n. 1.

Within the index

Filed under Nature of the culture hero (demigod).

2 finer motifs beneath it

Culture hero fights with his elder brother Culture hero (god) slays his grandfather

Filed beside it

Gods as culture heroes Culture hero as dupe or trickster Animal as culture hero Giant as culture hero Extraordinary possessions of culture hero Physical characteristics of culture hero (demigod)Special powers of culture hero Culture hero has supernatural helpers

Travels with

Twin culture heroes – one foolish, one clever. (Cf. A525.)

wander