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	Hero - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The hero commonly possesses superhuman capabilities or idealized character traits which enable him or her to perform extraordinary, beneficial deeds (i.e., a "heroic deed") for which he or she is famous (compare villain).
		In modern movies, the hero is often simply an ordinary person in extraordinary circumstances, who, despite the odds being stacked against him or her, typically prevails in the end.
		The Heroes of the Greeks, London: Thames and Hudson.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hero (1554 words)

	Culture hero - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A culture hero is a mythological or historically-embellished hero specific to some group (cultural, ethnic, racial, 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 and religion, and is usually the most important legendary figure of a people, sometimes as the founder of its ruling dynasty.
		In many cultures, particularly Native American, the mythical figure of the trickster and the culture hero are combined.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Culture_hero (252 words)

	TheEdge: Intercultural Sojourn as the Hero's Journey by William Hart
		A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder: fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won: the hero comes back from this mysterious adventure with the power to bestow boons on his[/her] fellow [people].
		The hero is fixated in the safe everyday world and is unwilling or perhaps unable to cut the umbilical chord that connects her to her mother-land.
		The hero begins "the labor of bringing the runes of wisdom, the Golden Fleece, or his sleeping princess, back into the kingdom of humanity, where the boon may rebound to the renewing of the community, the nation, the planet, or the ten thousand worlds" (p.
	www.interculturalrelations.com /v2i1Winter1999/w99hart.htm (5129 words)

	NAPF Programs: Youth Outreach: Peace Heroes: Why a Page on Peace Heroes?, by David Krieger
		The hero is seen as a central figure in the drama of history, a leader whose strength and spirit shape destiny.
		Cultures often warp the mirror of history, in part by the selection and creation of heroes that reflect the culture as triumphant and indomitable.
		Cultures may honor heroes to help in fostering a cultural identity conducive to patriotism, but heroes cannot be forced on individuals.
	www.wagingpeace.org /menu/programs/youth-outreach/peace-heroes/why-peace-heroes.htm (965 words)

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		Heroes may have great victories and great defeats; their very lives and activities may ring with significance, but for most of us, life is much closer to the edges of meaninglessness.
		As an embodied dissipative structure of consciousness and culture, she is, thus, the symbol factory for the priest and worshiper and the sign factory for a culture's residents.
		It is true that elements of the cultural hero in the Trickster cycle are neither clearly developmental nor evolutionarily sequential, but the emphasis of the four cycles is very much the emphasis of a culture hero who grows in cultural stature.
	www.trinity.edu /cspinks/myth/trixsem.html (9872 words)

	Culture heroes
		Myths of culture heroes describe the actions and character of beings who are responsible for the discovery of a particular artifact or technological process.
		A famous culture hero, a prototype of this kind, is Prometheus, from Greek mythology.
		Similar is the flsmith from Dogon culture, who steals seeds for the human community from the granary of the gods.
	www.pantheon.org /articles/c/culture_heroes.html (119 words)

	Arrows - Myth & Culture: The Cult of the Hero (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Maggie Macary is a cultural mythologist with a doctorate in mythological studies with an emphasis in depth psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute.
		Heroes are military, are missionary, are politicians, are astronauts.
		The hero myth, as in story seems to revolve around some kind of strange notion that anyone can be a hero if they only act in a certain kind of way, walk a certain kind of path, show a certain kind of courage.
	www.mythandculture.com /weblog/2004/09/cult-of-hero.html (1179 words)

	Phases (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The culture heroes are secular--war heroes etc. They battle the shadow forces that threaten the sacred.
		Culture is cultivating the fertile ground for the message of the sacred culture hero—a message that transcends doctrines toward "the way".
		Cultures in crisis are stuck on the imaginary past and a new way of being appears insane—there is no consensus.
	www.texfiles.com /eclipse/phases.htm (769 words)

	Sir Galahad a prototypical hero In many myths and folk... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		A hero normally fulfills the definitions of what is considered good good and noble in the originating culture culture.
		These mythological heroes were not always role models or possessed of heroic virtue; many were demigods demigods, the offspring of mortals and the gods gods.
		The age when heroes of this sort were active, and where the stories of Greek mythology Greek mythology were set, is frequently known as the "heroic age;" the heroic age ends shortly after the Trojan War Trojan War is over and the legend legendary combatants have returned to home or exile.
	www.biodatabase.de /Hero (704 words)

	heroes.html (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Heroes take arduous journeys, confront dragons (and/or other mythological creatures), discover lost treasure, and change the nature of the world through their singular acts of courage and selflessness.
		While many heroes arise from humble origins to command the respect of minions, some others are actually displaced princes who must struggle to regain their rightful place.
		In fact, the hero's journey can often be viewed as a magnified rite of passage, in which one exceptional individual (male or female, human or hobbit) ventures forth from the common world and returns older, stronger, somewhat wiser.
	www.towson.edu /~flynn/heroes.html (1930 words)

	Arrows - Myth & Culture: The Hero's Journey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Hero worship was literally the worship at the burial mounds of long-dead city founders.
		Heroes were only alive in their myths; they were never contemporary with the telling.
		He furthers the argument by pointing out that the hero – form which both the everyday ego and most protagonists in film seem to take their cue – has become severed from its psychic and mythic roots: Originally the hero had underworld ties too and was associated with burial mounds, sacrifice and earthiness.
	www.mythandculture.com /weblog/2005/10/heros-journey.html (1524 words)

	Help me flesh out this culture/society? - HERO GAMES Discussion Boards
		Lots of tales about heroic/tragic relationships between soldiers who fought and died (or triumphed heroically) against incredible odds in defense of their loved ones.
		Have the culture revere or respect the animals known to engage in same-sex coupling (wolves, dolphins, quite a few bird species, and others IIRC).
		Would suggest that the culture is matrilineal, children are the children of their mothers, no one cares (or often knows) who the father is.
	www.herogames.com /forums/showthread.php?t=30005 (2497 words)

	Games from Within: Cowboy Coders and the Hero Programmer Culture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		hero culture,” which seems to be the perfect breeding ground for those cowboys out there.
		The hero who rescued the princess from the clutches of the evil dragon in a bloody fight in front of the whole kingdom, or the one who quietly and efficiently destroyed the dragon eggs years before, ensuring many years of peace in the kingdom?
		One of the other consequences of a hero culture is the lack of progress visibility.
	www.gamesfromwithin.com /articles/0405/000023.html (1424 words)

	Theories on the North American Trickster by Ake Hultkrantz
		He is not what we ordinarily understand by the term 'culture hero,' a benevolent being of great power whose object it is to advance the interests of mankind, but he is simply one of many more or less powerful beings who gave the world its present shape.
		The culture heroes are the main figures in myths which describe how they were murdered in primeval times and then transformed into crops, whereafter they became chief spirits of the dead.
		On the interpretation of the dema as culture heroes, cf.
	www.antro.uu.se /acta/sample_theories.html (6848 words)

	Commentary Magazine - America's New Culture Hero (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		...One assumption of the play is plain: culture and tradition are desirable, but breed effeteness and perversity (Blanche is a nymphomaniac) and make one an easy prey to the unenlightened.AMERICA'S NEW CULTURE HERO 125 It should be clear, even from this brief analysis, that with Stanley, Williams wrought significant changes in the proletarian hero...
		...Although the hero of The Wild One begins as the leader of a group of cyclists who terrorize a small town, he repudiates his vicious companions and is, in turn, assaulted by the furious townspeople...
		...As a social or cultural figure, Stanley is a villain, in mindless opposition to civilization and culturethe "new man" of the modern world whom Williams seems to find responsible for the present-day decline in art, language, decorum, and culture...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V25I2P37-1.htm (4529 words)

	heroes
		Heroes of this type are not necessarily warriors: may be children who died untimely death.
		Many heroes are worshipped as founders of a city or colonies, and may have a grave or monument in the agora or marketplace/center of government
		By Hellenistic times heroes can be created and a heroön set up; among one's (recent) ancestors or for rulers; the honors of a hero may even be voted by a city government to a benefactor.
	www.utexas.edu /courses/nestor/heroes.html (1013 words)

	Trickster Versus Culture Hero by Jan-Ake Alvarsson
		Takjuaj is the hero of a rich cycle of great vitality; his deeds sometimes belong to a bygone era, but people still seem to believe in his existence here and now (1940:245).
		The trickster and the culture hero (who are sometimes one and the same) encompass a model of how to attain harmony.
		The ones who still cope reasonably with the degenerate varieties of human life are all hunting and gathering societies like the 'Weenhayek; cultures that have maintained the tales and the beliefs of the culture hero and the trickster...
	www.antro.uu.se /acta/sample_trickster.html (4694 words)

	The Yale Herald - April 11, 2003 - culture counter: 'Hero' to please audiences, eventually (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Hero, which stars most every actor from mainland China or Hong Kong you might know (Tony Leung and Maggie Cheung of Wong Kar-Wai's In the Mood for Love, Zhang Ziyi of Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon), has already made a heap of money on the other side of the Pacific.
		I had the opportunity to watch Hero this week with the unwieldy but manageable arrangement of watching the film on a bootleg DVD without subtitles on one computer while reading dialogue from a low quality VCD playing on another computer.
		Suffice it to say, Hero is one of the most evocative works put to film, at once expressionist and realist, every scene dissolving the boundaries between the real and the unreal.
	www.yaleherald.com /article.php?Article=2057 (873 words)

	Hero Did You Mean hero (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In mythology and folklore, a hero (male) or heroine (female) is an eminent character who quintessentially embodies key traits valued by its originating culture.
		It must be noted that different cultures or political angles may hold in completely opposite status of hero or villain to the same figure.
		Nameless Hero an ancient chinese warrior who was executed as an assassin, but buried a hero.
	www.did-you-mean.com /Hero.html (1500 words)

	Coyote
		In creation myths, Coyote appears as the Creator himself; but he may at the same time be the messenger, the culture hero, the trickster, the fool.
		He has also the ability of the transformer: in some stories he is a handsome young man; in others he is an animal; yet others present him as just a power, a sacred one.
		As the culture hero, Coyote appears in various mythic traditions.
	www.pantheon.org /articles/c/coyote.html (405 words)

	A Different Kind of Hero - Books & Culture - ChristianityTodayLibrary.com
		The phenomenon is called !Hero, and don't let the oddly placed exclamation point throw you—love it or hate it, it's there to call attention to the title.
		The vision behind !Hero stems from Eddie DeGarmo, best known as half of the Christian rock duo DeGarmo & Key, as well as the co-founder of Forefront Records.
		Since DeGarmo is a product of the late '60s and early '70s, it's natural to draw comparisons between !Hero and the messianic-themed rock operas of that era.
	www.ctlibrary.com /bc/2003/sepoct/10.20.html (428 words)

	TIME Asia Magazine: In the Mood for Swordplay -- Dec. 23, 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Zhang Yimou sounds defensive when he speaks of Hero as "a genre piece." The implication is: just a genre piece, a diversion, a long sword fight played by grownups.
		Hero marks a return to that precise, luscious style after a decade in which Zhang flirted with less beguiling visual and narrative strategies.
		Hero is a reunion of sorts for the principals.
	www.time.com /time/asia/magazine/article/0,13673,501021223-400044,00.html (1030 words)

	Do we need culture heroes
		The not immodest boast was made Pnina Rosenblum, a former super-model sometimes described as Israel’s Marilyn Monroe, now head of a successful cosmetics firm bearing her name on the label, and a would-be politician who may run for the Knesset in the next elections.
		One of the arbiters of the pantheon of Israeli culture heroes was apparently on the panel, at least according to another panelist.
		Almog, the sociologist, suggested that Israeli politicians were no longer heroes as people got to know them more than they did in the past, the familiarization tearing away the hero veneer.
	research.haifa.ac.il /~focus/1998-autumn/f09.html (656 words)

	A Movie Review of Hero - Chinese Culture
		In Hero, the story is more political and, for me, pulled at the heartstring of what it meant to be Chinese and the Martial Arts takes a proper second seat to the plot.
		In addition, during the movie, the Emperor and the nameless hero make comments about how influential swordplay is to writing.
		So while Hero, did do a wonderful job with the Martial Arts, it is really the political and philosophical messages of the movie that struck at my heart and made this movie unique and worth going to see.
	www.bellaonline.com /articles/art30552.asp (665 words)

	Unit 2 Part 2 : Ancient Rome : Activity: Aeneid (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		A culture hero provides a noble image to inspire and guide the actions of all who share that culture.
		Once you've completed your project, share your modern culture hero and his or her adventures with your classmates.
		According to Campbell, heroes of past and present—those in literature, in movies, and on television—embark on journeys with common elements.
	www.classzone.com /books/world_lit/page_build.cfm?id=act_humanity&u=2&p=2 (374 words)

	Culture Hero, article by Robert Christgau on Mzwakhe Mbuli, people's poet of South Africa, now imprisoned for crimes he ...
		Politics was never discussed, radio listening limited to mbube, yet the young man's questioning spirit was spurred by a pass arrest when he was thirteen, and by the time of the Soweto uprising in 1976, his father was dead, and politics were unavoidable.
		In his cultural guerrilla days, of course, voice, body and words were all he had.
		And he became controversial on the typically fractious and exceptionally puritanical South African left, where some charged that he was a rogue, a self-promoter, and--based on his work with the UDF cultural desk and the South African Musicians Alliance--a "cultural commissar." It's difficult to judge such squabbles at a distance.
	www.mzwakhe.org /CULTURE.HTM (1475 words)

	Tales of Asia - Literatur/Culture Hero
		¡ 1947: Vice-committee for culture of the national committee for education.
		A whole of his life was to donate to revitalize the cultural identity of Cambodia.
		Choun Nat’s biography is classified into the cultural heritage of Cambodia, and Cambodia must preserve this cultural heritage.
	www.talesofasia.com /rs-83-lithero.htm (1573 words)

	SportsFilter \| The Coach as Culture Hero
		There is surely no American archetype more preposterously overpraised at this cultural moment than the Coach.
		If the mere fact that a person is a coach does in fact lead to "hero worship" or a transformation "into some kind of minor diety in the eyes of America" - then that IS absurd.
		And kids sure don't seem to view their coaches as heroes nearly as much as just another authoritarian figure telling them to do stuff they don't want to do.
	www.sportsfilter.com /comments.cfm/6033 (1931 words)

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