Religious concept of first human
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 Manu and Shatrupa or Adam and Eve), 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
- Cherokee
- Chinese folk religion
- Fu Xi and Nüwa (sometimes said to be created by Pangu)
- Pangu
- Cowichan peoples
- Germanic mythology
- Tuiscon - first ancestor of Germans
- Greek mythology
- Hinduism
- Inca mythology
- Lakota people
- Tokahe - first human emerged from the underworld
- Wa and Ka
- Maori mythology
- Muisca mythology
- Navajo mythology
- Áłtsé Hastiin and Áłtsé Asdzą́ą́
- Norse mythology
- Polynesian mythology
- Philippine mythology
- Shinto
- Traditional African religions
- kuyu
- Lozi Mythology
- Kamunu (first human created by Nyambe)
- Serer creation myth
- YAAB and YOP (first human couple (female and male respectively) created by Roog in Serer religion[2])
- Unan and Ngoor (two mythical figures in the Serer creation myth and early ancestors of humanity - female and male respectively[3])
- Jambooñ and Agaire (two sisters and early ancestors of the Serer and Jola people respectively whose pirogue broke at the Point of Sangomar separating the two groups[4][5][6])
- Yoruba mythology
- Turkic mythology
- Vietnamese mythology
- Zoroastrianism
See also
References
- ^ The Apocalypse of Moses, http://www2.iath.virginia.edu/anderson/vita/english/vita.lat.html#per39
- ^ « Genesis of YAAB & YOP » narrated by « Armand Diouf » of Ndimaag (Senegal), [in] Gravrand, Henry, La Civilisation Sereer - Pangool, vol. 2. Les Nouvelles Editions Africaines du Senegal (1990), p. 204, ISBN 2-7236-1055-1
- ^ Gravrand, Henry, La Civilisation Sereer - Pangool, vol. 2. Les Nouvelles Editions Africaines du Senegal (1990), pp. 204−5, ISBN 2-7236-1055-1
- ^ Ndiaye, Fata, La saga du peuple sérère et l'Histoire du Sine, Ethiopiques n° 54 revue semestrielle de culture négro-africaine, Nouvelle série volume 7, 2e semestre 1991.
- ^ The Seereer Resource Centre, An overview of Seereer deities and Seereer historical figures (2015) [in] The Seereer Resource Centre [1]
- ^ Taal, Ebou Momar, Senegambian Ethnic Groups : Common Origins and Cultural Affinities Factors and Forces of National Unity, Peace and Stability, [in] The Point (2010)[2]