List of protoplasts in religion

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A protoplast, from ancient Greek {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} (prōtóplastos, "first-formed"), in a religious context initially referred to the first human<ref>The Apocalypse of Moses, http://www2.iath.virginia.edu/anderson/vita/english/vita.lat.html#per39</ref> 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

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Abrahamic mythology

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Australian Aboriginal mythology

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Ayyavazhi mythology

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

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Baganda
Cherokee

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Chinese folk religion

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

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Greek mythology

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Hindu mythology

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Inca mythology

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

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Māori mythology

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Muisca mythology
  • Tena and Fura

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Navajo mythology

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Norse mythology

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Polynesian mythology

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Philippine mythology

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Shinto mythology

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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<ref>« 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, Template:ISBN</ref>)
    • Unan and Ngoor (two mythical figures in the Serer creation myth and early ancestors of humanity - female and male respectively<ref>Gravrand, Henry, La Civilisation Sereer - Pangool, vol. 2. Les Nouvelles Editions Africaines du Senegal (1990), pp. 204−5, Template:ISBN</ref>)
    • 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<ref>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.</ref><ref>The Seereer Resource Centre, An overview of Seereer deities and Seereer historical figures (2015) [in] The Seereer Resource Centre [1]</ref><ref>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]</ref>)

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Yoruba mythology

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Turkic mythology

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Vietnamese mythology

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Zoroastrian mythology

See also

References

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