ur-hero
nounEtymology From ur- + hero.
1
An original or mythological hero.
- It has all been foretold, forelived, Tridib being, so to speak, the novel's ur-imagination, ur-hero, ur-narrator.1992, Mohan Lal, Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature: Sasay to Zorgot - Page 3936:
- 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 [...]2005, David Leeming, The Oxford Companion to World Mythology - Page 181: