List of protoplasts in religion

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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 humankind (as in Adam and Eve or Manu and Shatrupa), or of surviving humanity after a cataclysm (as in Deucalion or Noah).

List of protoplasts

Abrahamic mythology

Australian Aboriginal mythology

Ayyavazhi mythology

Aztec mythology
  • Tata/Coxcox and Nana/Xochitl – new progenitors of humankind after the flood
  • Oxomoco and Cipactonal – first human couple created

Baganda

Berber
Cherokee

Chinese folk religion

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

Greek mythology

Hindu mythology

Inca mythology

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

Māori mythology

Muisca mythology
  • Tena and Fura

Navajo mythology
  • Áłtsé Hastiin and Áłtsé Asdzą́ą́

Norse mythology

Polynesian mythology

Philippine mythology

Shinto mythology

Traditional African religions

Yoruba mythology

Turkic mythology
  • Törüngey and Ece

Vietnamese mythology

Zoroastrian mythology

See also

References

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