culture-bringer-teaches-crafts

Apkallu · salience 0.95

“The Apkallu, called Abgal in Sumerian, are sages of the time before the flood, credited with bringing writing, law, craft, and the other foundations of settled life to the first cities.”

Bochica · salience 0.95

“Bochica belongs to the Muisca of the Colombian highlands, and appears in the colonial-era accounts as a bearded stranger who arrives from the east, travels among the people, and teaches them — weaving, agriculture, the making of things, and the ordering of law and worship.”

Qat · salience 0.9

“He is a vui — a being of the spirit order rather than a god in a pantheon sense — and he is credited with making the first human beings by carving them from wood and animating them, with obtaining night from a distant source so that the world could have alternation instead of perpetual daylight, and with a range of other establishing acts. His stories are structured by opposition from within the family.”

Azazel · salience 0.9

“That development casts Azazel as one of the leading Watchers, angels who descend to take human wives and father a race of giants, and credits him specifically with teaching forbidden crafts: metalworking and the making of swords, knives, shields, and armor, introducing organized violence, and the arts of cosmetics, dye, and jewelry taught to women, blamed for spreading vanity and seduction.”

Coyote · salience 0.8

“Coyote is a transformer who does real world-making — bringing fire, releasing water or game, establishing how death works, arranging features of the landscape — and he is also foolish, greedy, lecherous and vain, frequently undone by exactly the appetite that drove the useful act.”

Maira · salience 0.7

“The Tenetehara make Maira the tribal hero and culture-bringer behind the myth; farther west the twins themselves take over the leading roles in flood and night-origin myths across many peoples.”

Basajaun

“He is also credited in Basque tradition with teaching humans the arts of agriculture and ironworking, including the secrets of the saw and other tools, making him a culture-bringer as much as a guardian spirit.”