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	Hero - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A hero normally fulfills the definitions of what is considered good and noble in the originating culture.
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hero (1554 words)

	Culture hero - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
		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.
		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)

	NAPF Programs: Youth Outreach: Peace Heroes: Why a Page on Peace Heroes?, by David Krieger
		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.
		The culture, in the manner of the evil queen in Snow White, asks the question, "Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the most powerful of all?" It shapes its heroes to provide the answer: "You are."
	www.wagingpeace.org /menu/programs/youth-outreach/peace-heroes/why-peace-heroes.htm (965 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 blacksmith 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)

	TheEdge: Intercultural Sojourn as the Hero's Journey by William Hart
		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.
		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].
	www.interculturalrelations.com /v2i1Winter1999/w99hart.htm (5129 words)

	Phases
		Culture is cultivating the fertile ground for the message of the sacred culture hero—a message that transcends doctrines toward "the way".
		The culture heroes are secular--war heroes etc. They battle the shadow forces that threaten the sacred.
		In fact culture heroes like Buddha, Jesus, Quetzalcoatl and Mohammed are classic examples of individuals who transformed themselves first and then initiated others into a new way of being.
	www.texfiles.com /eclipse/phases.htm (769 words)

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		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.
		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.
		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.
	www.trinity.edu /cspinks/myth/trixsem.html (9872 words)

	Theories on the North American Trickster by Ake Hultkrantz
		On the interpretation of the dema as culture heroes, cf.
		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.
	www.antro.uu.se /acta/sample_theories.html (6848 words)

	Arrows - Myth & Culture: The Hero's Journey
		Hero worship was literally the worship at the burial mounds of long-dead city founders.
		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.
		Maggie Macary is a cultural mythologist with a doctorate in mythological studies with an emphasis in depth psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute.
	www.mythandculture.com /weblog/2005/10/heros-journey.html (1524 words)

	heroes.html
		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.
		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.
	www.towson.edu /~flynn/heroes.html (1930 words)

	Games from Within: Cowboy Coders and the Hero Programmer Culture
		hero culture,” which seems to be the perfect breeding ground for those cowboys out there.
		One of the other consequences of a hero culture is the lack of progress visibility.
		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?
	www.gamesfromwithin.com /articles/0405/000023.html (1424 words)

	Help me flesh out this culture/society? - HERO GAMES Discussion Boards
		Would suggest that the culture is matrilineal, children are the children of their mothers, no one cares (or often knows) who the father is.
		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).
		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.
	www.herogames.com /forums/showthread.php?t=30005 (2497 words)

	A Different Kind of Hero - Books & Culture - ChristianityTodayLibrary.com
		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.
		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)

	heroes
		Heroes of this type are not necessarily warriors: may be children who died untimely death.
		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.
		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
	www.utexas.edu /courses/nestor/heroes.html (1013 words)

	TIME Asia Magazine: In the Mood for Swordplay -- Dec. 23, 2002
		Hero is a reunion of sorts for the principals.
		Hero marks a return to that precise, luscious style after a decade in which Zhang flirted with less beguiling visual and narrative strategies.
		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.
	www.time.com /time/asia/magazine/article/0,13673,501021223-400044,00.html (1030 words)

	The Yale Herald - April 11, 2003 - culture counter: 'Hero' to please audiences, eventually
		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.
		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.
		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.
	www.yaleherald.com /article.php?Article=2057 (873 words)

	Commentary Magazine - America's New Culture Hero
		...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)

	Trickster Versus Culture Hero by Jan-Ake Alvarsson
		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...
		TRICKSTER VERSUS CULTURE HERO — The Roles of Thokwjwaj and 'Ahutsetajwaj in 'Weenhayek Mythology
	www.antro.uu.se /acta/sample_trickster.html (4694 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)

	Do we need culture heroes
		One of the arbiters of the pantheon of Israeli culture heroes was apparently on the panel, at least according to another panelist.
		This contention was challenged by Oz-Salzberger, who questioned whether there were really individuals who decided who was to be a culture hero.
		This changed in the 1970s, when people began building themselves up to become culture/media heroes in Israeli society, she believes.
	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.
		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.
		In addition, during the movie, the Emperor and the nameless hero make comments about how influential swordplay is to writing.
	www.bellaonline.com /articles/art30552.asp (665 words)

	Culture Hero, article by Robert Christgau on Mzwakhe Mbuli, people's poet of South Africa, now imprisoned for crimes he did not commit
		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.
		In his cultural guerrilla days, of course, voice, body and words were all he had.
		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.
	www.mzwakhe.org /CULTURE.HTM (1475 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.
		As the culture hero, Coyote appears in various mythic traditions.
		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.
	www.pantheon.org /articles/c/coyote.html (405 words)

	SportsFilter The Coach as Culture Hero
		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.
		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.
		posted by justgary to Culture at 1:36 AM CST (13 comments total)
	www.sportsfilter.com /comments.cfm/6033 (1931 words)

	Oceanic Mythology: Part II. Melanesia: Chapter II. Culture Hero Tales
		Qat is the great hero, and many tales are told of him and his eleven brothers, all of whom were named Tagaro, one being Tagaro the Wise, and one Tagaro the Foolish.
		In the stories told in Mota, all seem to have combined against Qat and endeavoured to kill him; but in Santa Maria, another island of the group, Qat has his antithesis in Marawa, the Spider,
	www.sacred-texts.com /pac/om/om12.htm (2159 words)

	Psycho Killer Is No Pop Culture Anti hero The Toronto Star April 19
		The company blew a reported $100,000 (U.S.) on its Web campaign, which foolishly tried to make a pop culture anti-hero out of Patrick Bateman, the movie's fictional psychopath.
		Which is something to think about the next time you hear people make the ridiculous claim that the Internet is now the only way to push movies.
		It instead turned him into a ghastly bore, and that must have had an impact on ticket sales.
	www.fradical.com /psycho_killer_is_no_pop_culture_.htm (525 words)

	The Coach as Culture Hero By Timothy Noah
		The Coach as Culture Hero By Timothy Noah
		A new anthology titled Coach: 25 Writers Reflect on People Who Made a Difference, invites John Edgar Wideman, Pat Conroy, David Maraniss, Charles McGrath, and Francine Prose to ponder the centrality of coaches to their lives.
		There is surely no American archetype more preposterously overpraised at this cultural moment than the Coach.
	www.slate.com /id/2133906 (494 words)

	Reznet : Culture: : Unsung Hero
		Jones, program coordinator for the Office of Multicultural Affairs and a member of the Oneida Indian Nation, was honored with a 2004 Unsung Heroes Award for her work with the Native American students on campus.
		"Our community always had midwives, so it's important that we continue this part of our culture."
		"We also want to open it up to people who want to learn more about our culture."
	www.reznetnews.org /culture/040315_jones (600 words)

	culture hero - OneLook Dictionary Search
		Tip: Click on the first link on a line below to go directly to a page where "culture hero" is defined.
		We found 2 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word culture hero:
	www.onelook.com /?w=culture-hero (74 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly Culture Action-hero dynasties
		In this double-chase action flick, directed by Ahmed Galal and scripted by Bilal Fadl, the hero needs to escape from both the gang and the police; he also needs to prove his innocence.
		The combination is in effect a variation on the film noir formula that informs hundreds of American films, reaching a rare maturity in Quentin Tarantino's debut script True Romance (1991), directed by Tony Scott.
		So goes the story of Abu Ali, the highest grossing film released last Eid -- over LE11 million so far.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2005/734/cu2.htm (736 words)

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