List of culture heroes

This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these messages) This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "List of culture heroes" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (October 2010) (Learn how and when to remove this message) This article may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards. The specific problem is: lead needs clarification of definition, potential ethnocentrism, see Talk page. Relevant discussion may be found on the talk page. Please help improve this article if you can. (April 2019) (Learn how and when to remove this message) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

A culture hero is a mythological hero specific to a group of people (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 one of the most important legendary figures of a people, sometimes as the founder of its ruling dynasty.