culture hero
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A mythical character or real person who is renowned as the exemplar of the values or…
A mythical character or real person who is renowned as the exemplar of the values or achievements of a society, group, or time period.
- A precisely similar notion was found by Avila among the Indians of Huarochiri, whose divine culture-hero imposed, by a curse or a blessing, their character and habits on the beasts.
- [T]he U.S. has long been the Land of Efficiency. . . . Here mass production was born, the assembly line for good or ill became the modern cornucopia, and Henry Ford once reigned as the leading culture hero.
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