Protoplast (religion)

A protoplast, from ancient Greek πρωτόπλαστος (prōtóplastos, "first-formed"), in a religious context initially referred to the first human[1] or, more generally, to the first organized body of progenitors of mankind in a creation story (as in Adam and Eve), or of surviving humanity after a cataclysm (as in Deucalion or Noah).

List of protoplasts

Australian Aboriginal mythology

Abrahamic religions

Ayyavazhi mythology
Baganda
Cherokee

Chinese folk religion

Cowichan peoples
  • Quiltumtun
Germanic mythology
  • Tuiscon - first ancestor of Germans

Greek mythology

Ho-Chunk
  • Kunu
  • An unnamed one-legged man
  • Turtle

Hinduism

Inca mythology

Kikuyu people

Lakota people
  • Tokahe - first human emerged from the underworld
  • Wa and Ka

Maori mythology

Navajo mythology
  • Áłtsé Hastiin and Áłtsé Asdzą́ą́

Norse mythology

Polynesian mythology

Philippine mythology

Shintoism

Turkic mythology
  • Törüngey

Zoroastrianism

See also

References

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