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unusual facts about culture hero



Chinigchinix

Chingichngish has variously been represented as a creator deity, a culture hero or lawgiver figure or a "prophet", who became associated with the figure of Christ after the conversion of the Takic peoples.


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Goatee

Similarly, the DC Comics comic book superhero, Green Arrow aka Oliver Queen, became a distinctive character in the late 1960s when he was visually redesigned with such a beard, which inspired writer Dennis O'Neil to reimagine him as a politically active counter culture hero.

Iwai

I'wai, the culture hero of the Koko Y'ao in Australian Aboriginal mythology

Ling Lun

An alternative text, the Lushi Chunqiu (Annals of Master Lu, third century BCE) credits another culture hero, Kui (who is somewhat confused with a one-legged mythical monster bearing the same name, Kui) with the invention of music.

Nanaia

Haunui-a-Nanaia, a culture hero in Pukerua Bay, a small seaside community at the southern end of the Kapiti Coast, New Zealand

Paititi

The Paititi legend in Peru revolves around the story of the culture-hero Inkarri, who, after he had founded Q'ero and Cusco, retreated toward the jungles of Pantiacolla to live out the rest of his days in his refuge city of Paititi.

Pukerua Bay

According to legend, the rock is the petrified wife of culture hero Haunui-a-Nanaia, who pursued her from Mahia Peninsula, naming places on the way including Manawatū, Ohau and Turakina.