ur-hero
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]- An original or mythological hero.
- 1992, Mohan Lal, Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature: Sasay to Zorgot - Page 3936:
- It has all been foretold, forelived, Tridib being, so to speak, the novel's ur-imagination, ur-hero, ur-narrator.
- 2005, David Leeming, The Oxford Companion to World Mythology - Page 181:
- The hero myths we have, those available to us for comparison, are primarily from strongly patriarchal societies, and it is to the patriarchal ur-hero that emerges from these myths [...]