Culture Hero Sartakpai: The Image in Altaian Folklore Revisited by Tamara M. Sadalova, Tatuna N. Pashtakova

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Noile vieți de apoi; imortalitatea socială în contextul tehnologiilor digitale. Editura Tritonic, București, 2020. Ștefania Matei by Laurențiu D. Tănase

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Man vs time: the features of сhrono-fiction in S. Krzhizhanovsky's story "Memories of the Future" by Tatiana Shekhovtsova, Veronika Yaskova

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"THE MAN WHO DOES NOT SLEEP": ON THE SPECIFIC INTERPRETATION OF THE RUSSIAN MYTH ABOUT DON QUIXOTE IN THE SERIES OF STORIES "THE INVENTIONS OF PROFESSOR WAGNER" BY A. BELYAEV by Daria V. Ponomareva

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Проблема авторского мифа в романе А. Ильченко Козацькому роду нема переводу, або ж Мамай і чужа молодиця... by Valentyna Narivskaja

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The Bones of Khosrow: The Sacred Topography of Ctesiphon by Touraj Daryaee

“…By the last Sasanian period the city was not only inhabited by Iranian speaking people and a capital, but it also became part of Iranian lore and tradition, tied to mythical Iranian culture-heroes and kings. Even with the fall of the Sasanian Empire, in Arabic and Persian poetry the grandeur and memory of Ctesiphon was preserved as part of memory of the great empires of the past.…”
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The Watchman’s Part: Earth Time, Human Time, and the “World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity” by Bronislaw Szerszynski

“…I place these in the context of the long practice in human culture of separating and relating different registers of time: the human time of communication and recollection, and ‘inhuman’ times such as the time of the gods, culture heroes, or latterly Earth history. I suggest that in the Anthropocene the ability of geological and meteorological tropes to control the semiotic relations between lived human time and deep, planetary time is being disrupted. …”
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Høygud og kulturbringer - til Werner Müllers forståelse av de sentrale skogindianeres religioner by Nils Olav Breivik

“…According to Müller, the Indian Supreme God and Culture Hero, which is the topic of this paper, both have a cosmic structure. …”
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FORMULA PEMELIHARAAN AGAMA (ḤIFẒ AL-DĪN) PADA MASYARAKAT DESA DERMOLO JEPARA: Implementasi Maqāṣid al-Sharī’ah dengan Pendekatan Antropologi by Fakhrudin Aziz

“…Religion upholding (maintenance) as maqāṣid al-sharī’ah in Dermolo villagers is constructed through noble/ultimate value systematization from cultural hero. Religion is placed as a way of life and is not framed as unorganized religion. …”
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The Sugi sakit Ritual storytelling in a Saribas Iban rite of healing by Clifford Sather

“…What distinguished this rite from other forms of Saribas Iban healing was that it incorporated within its performance a long narrative epic concerned with the adventures and love affairs of an Iban culture hero named Bujang Sugi. Here I explore the language used by Iban priest bards both in telling the Sugi epic and in performing the larger ritual drama in which it was set, and look, in particular, at how the Sugi epic, which was otherwise told for entertainment, was integrated into this drama and recast by the priest bards as they performed the ritual, so that it not only entertained their listeners, but also served as a serious instrument of healing.…”
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Folklore as an Expression of Intercultural Communication Between Jews and Poles – King Jan III Sobieski in Jewish Legends<br>Folklora kot izraz medkulturne komunikacije med Judi in... by Haya Bar-Itzhak

“…The legends are examined from various facets, such as their cultural context, the literary patterns of the culture hero, narrative roles, and their deep structure.…”
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Go Set a Watchman: by Sohana Manzoor

“…Some wailed over the loss of their hero Atticus Finch from To Kill a Mockingbird (hereafter, TKAM) who, from a cultural hero, seems to have turned into a bigot at old age. …”
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The Curious Case of Kafka’s “Odradek”: by Shamsad Mortuza

“…This paper considers various interpretations of Odradek and compares it with the culture hero, the trickster. AlthoughOdradek is a modernist figure that responds to the angst of the Europe after the Great War, I shall argue that it can be considered as a marginal figure trickster that continuously asserts the need for continuance and survival. …”
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Odinian Sources of Simonas Daukantas by Roma Bončkutė

“… The article discusses the sources used by the national Lithuanian historian Simonas Daukantas (1793–1864) which determined the inclusion of Odin in the ranks of Lithuanian/Baltic cultural heroes in the work BUDĄ Senowęs-Lëtuwiû Kalnienû ĩr Ƶámajtiû (en. …”
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Eskatologien i tidlig romersk kejsertid by Svend Erik Mathiassen

“…Virgil claims the reappearance of the Golden Age and Augustus, whose reign in the Aeneid is closely connected with the myth of Saturn as a culture-hero, is regarded as a savior, who rescued the Roman citizens from the plague of civil wars. …”
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Rehepapp and Robin Hood: Tricksters or Heroes? by Paul Rüsse, Karita Nuut

“…In reference books and specialised literature, the traditional distinction between the culture hero and the trickster remains surprisingly unequivocal: the latter mythological character is usually defined as the demonic or comical counterpart of the former. …”
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A View from 14th Century Toledo: Rabbi Asher, a German Émigré, Transforms the Legal Culture in Castile by Judah D. Galinsky

“…In this study, I explore the way in which a German émigré rose to the status of a cultural hero in Castile, Spain, and how his work of law became one of the three “pillars” of Jewish law. …”
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Du petit poucet devenu l’enfant‑océan a Mekideche et Baïdro effets d’intertextualité et de transculturalité by Marie‑Agnès Thirard

“…Finally, in a last part, we should not forget that this character is not only an inter-generational and inter-textual character but a universal and cross-cultural hero and that we encounter him under the form of Mekideche and Baïdro in Maghreb.…”
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Cuatro relatos mitológicos bocotas de los "yé nansére" ("seres malos") by Emilia Margery Peña

“…The mythical tales of Bocotá oral tradition comprise two types of entities: the "yé nú", positive beings created by Chubé -the great originator and cultural hero of this ethnic group- and the "yé nansére", negative beings created by Doiá, traditional antagonist and nemesis of Chubé. …”
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Gian Carlo Menotti’s The Last Savage: Opera, Science, and Relevance in Cold War American Culture by Cynthia Lisa Dretel

“…At the height of the Space Race, scientists and artists were cultural heroes for broad swathes of the American public, as they were vital to national goals and cultural diplomacy efforts. …”
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