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Protoplast (religion), the Glossary

A protoplast, from ancient Greek πρωτόπλαστος (prōtóplastos, "first-formed"), in a religious context initially referred to the first human 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).^[1]

88 relations: Abrahamic religions, Adam and Eve, Adam Kadmon, Adam Kasia, Ancient Greek, Ask and Embla, Australian Aboriginal religion and mythology, Avatea, Ayyavazhi mythology, Aztec mythology, Âu Cơ, Baganda, Cherokee spiritual beliefs, Chinese folk religion, Cipactonal, Cosmic Man, Cowichan Tribes, Deucalion, Diné Bahaneʼ, Discovery of human antiquity, Epimetheus, Fuxi, Germanic mythology, Greek mythology, Hiligaynon people, Hinduism, Human, Inca mythology, Iya Nla, Izanagi, Izanami, Jola people, Kalicchi, Kaliyan, Keyumars, Kidili, Kikuyu people, Kintu, Kumu-Honua, Lakota people, Lalo-Honua, Lạc Long Quân, Líf and Lífþrasir, Lilith, List of Lakota deities, Mahabad (prophet), Mandaeism, Manu (Hinduism), Manvantara, Mashya and Mashyana, ... Expand index (38 more) »
Mythological first humans

Abrahamic religions

The Abrahamic religions are a grouping of three of the major religions (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam) together due to their historical coexistence and competition; it refers to Abraham, a figure mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, the Christian Bible, and the Quran, and is used to show similarities between these religions and put them in contrast to Indian religions, Iranian religions, and the East Asian religions (though other religions and belief systems may refer to Abraham as well).

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Adam and Eve

Adam and Eve, according to the creation myth of the Abrahamic religions, were the first man and woman. Protoplast (religion) and Adam and Eve are creation myths, legendary progenitors and mythological first humans.

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Adam Kadmon

In Kabbalah, Adam Kadmon (אָדָם קַדְמוֹן, ʾāḏām qaḏmōn, "Primordial Man") also called Adam Elyon (אָדָם עֶלִיוֹן, ʾāḏām ʿelyōn, "Most High Man"), or Adam Ila'ah (אָדָם עִילָּאָה, ʾāḏām ʿīllāʾā "Supreme Man"), sometimes abbreviated as A"K (א"ק, ʾA.Q.), is the first of Four Worlds that came into being after the contraction of God's infinite light. Protoplast (religion) and Adam Kadmon are mythological first humans.

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Adam Kasia

Adam Kasia (ࡀࡃࡀࡌ ࡊࡀࡎࡉࡀ; also referred to using the portmanteau Adakas ࡀࡃࡀࡊࡀࡎ or Adakas Ziwa in the Ginza Rabba) means "the hidden Adam" in Mandaic. Protoplast (religion) and Adam Kasia are mythological first humans.

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Ancient Greek

Ancient Greek (Ἑλληνῐκή) includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC.

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Ask and Embla

In Norse mythology, Ask and Embla (Askr ok Embla)—man and woman respectively—were the first two humans, created by the gods. Protoplast (religion) and Ask and Embla are legendary progenitors and mythological first humans.

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Australian Aboriginal religion and mythology

Australian Aboriginal religion and mythology is the sacred spirituality represented in the stories performed by Aboriginal Australians within each of the language groups across Australia in their ceremonies.

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Avatea

In Cook Islands mythology, Avatea (also known as Vatea; meaning 'noon' or 'light') was a lunar deity and the father of gods and men in Mangaian myth of origin. Protoplast (religion) and Avatea are legendary progenitors.

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Ayyavazhi mythology

Ayyavazhi mythology is the mythology of the South Indian religious faith known as Ayyavazhi, which is officially considered a Hindu sect.

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Aztec mythology

Aztec mythology is the body or collection of myths of the Aztec civilization of Central Mexico.

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Âu Cơ

Âu Cơ (chữ Hán: 甌姬) was, according to the creation myth of the Vietnamese people, an immortal mountain snow goddess who married Lạc Long Quân, and bore an egg sac that hatched a hundred children known collectively as Bách Việt, ancestors to the Vietnamese people.

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Baganda

The Baganda (endonym: Baganda; singular Muganda) also called Waganda, are a Bantu ethnic group native to Buganda, a subnational kingdom within Uganda.

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Cherokee spiritual beliefs

Cherokee spiritual beliefs are held in common among the Cherokee people – Native American peoples who are Indigenous to the Southeastern Woodlands, and today live primarily in communities in North Carolina (the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians), and Oklahoma (the Cherokee Nation and United Keetowah Band of Cherokee Indians). Protoplast (religion) and Cherokee spiritual beliefs are creation myths.

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Chinese folk religion

Chinese folk religion, also known as Chinese popular religion, comprehends a range of traditional religious practices of Han Chinese, including the Chinese diaspora.

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Cipactonal

Cipactonal is the Aztec god of astrology and calendars. Protoplast (religion) and Cipactonal are mythological first humans.

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Cosmic Man

In Jungian theory, the Cosmic Man is an archetypal figure that appears in creation myths of a wide variety of mythology. Protoplast (religion) and Cosmic Man are mythological first humans.

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Cowichan Tribes

Cowichan Tribes (Quw’utsun) is the band government of the Cowichan, a group of Coast Salish peoples who live in the Cowichan Valley region on Vancouver Island.

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Deucalion

In Greek mythology, Deucalion (Δευκαλίων) was the son of Prometheus; ancient sources name his mother as Clymene, Hesione, or Pronoia. Protoplast (religion) and Deucalion are legendary progenitors.

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Diné Bahaneʼ

("Story of the People"), is a Navajo creation story that describes the prehistoric emergence of the Navajo as a part of the Navajo religious beliefs. Protoplast (religion) and Diné Bahaneʼ are creation myths.

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Discovery of human antiquity

The discovery of human antiquity was a major achievement of science in the middle of the 19th century, and the foundation of scientific paleoanthropology.

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Epimetheus

In Greek mythology, Epimetheus (afterthought) is the twin brother of Prometheus, the pair serving "as representatives of mankind".

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Fuxi

Fuxi or Fu Hsi (伏羲) is a culture hero in Chinese mythology, credited along with his sister and wife Nüwa with creating humanity and the invention of music, hunting, fishing, domestication, and cooking, as well as the Cangjie system of writing Chinese characters around 2900 BC or 2000BC.

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Germanic mythology

Germanic mythology consists of the body of myths native to the Germanic peoples, including Norse mythology, Anglo-Saxon mythology, and Continental Germanic mythology.

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Greek mythology

Greek mythology is the body of myths originally told by the ancient Greeks, and a genre of ancient Greek folklore, today absorbed alongside Roman mythology into the broader designation of classical mythology.

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Hiligaynon people

The Hiligaynon people (mga Hiligaynon), often referred to as Ilonggo people (mga Ilonggo) or Panayan people (mga Panayanon), are the second largest subgroup of the larger Visayan ethnic group, whose primary language is Hiligaynon, an Austronesian language of the Visayan branch native to Panay, Guimaras, and Negros.

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Hinduism

Hinduism is an Indian religion or dharma, a religious and universal order by which its followers abide.

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Human

Humans (Homo sapiens, meaning "thinking man") or modern humans are the most common and widespread species of primate, and the last surviving species of the genus Homo.

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Inca mythology

Inca mythology is the universe of legends and collective memory of the Inca civilization, which took place in the current territories of Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, and Argentina, incorporating in the first instance, systematically, the territories of the central highlands of Peru to the north.

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Iya Nla

Ìyá Nlá is the primordial spirit of all creation in Yoruba cosmology.

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Izanagi

Izanagi (イザナギ/伊邪那岐/伊弉諾) or Izanaki (イザナキ), formally referred to with a divine honorific as, is the creator deity (kami) of both creation and life in Japanese mythology. Protoplast (religion) and Izanagi are creation myths.

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Izanami

, formally referred to with the honorific, is the creator deity of both creation and death in Japanese mythology, as well as the Shinto mother goddess.

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Jola people

The Jola or Diola (endonym: Ajamat) are an ethnic group found in Senegal, the Gambia, and Guinea-Bissau.

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Kalicchi

Kalicchi is married to Kaliyan according to Akilathirattu Ammanai, the holy book of the Ayyavazhi sect of Hinduism. Protoplast (religion) and Kalicchi are mythological first humans.

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Kaliyan

Kali (Kaliyan in Tamil) was the sixth fragment of the primordial manifestation of Kroni (evil) according to Akilathirattu, the source of Ayyavazhi mythology and the holy book of Ayyavazhi religion. Protoplast (religion) and Kaliyan are creation myths.

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Keyumars

Keyumars or Kiomars (کیومرث) was the name of the first king (shah) of the Pishdadian dynasty of Iran according to the Shahnameh. Protoplast (religion) and Keyumars are legendary progenitors and mythological first humans.

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Kidili

In Australian aboriginal mythology (specifically: Mandjindja), Kidili (or Kidilli) was an ancient moon-man who attempted to rape some of the first women on Earth.

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Kikuyu people

The Kikuyu (also Agĩkũyũ/Gĩkũyũ) are a Bantu ethnic group native to East Africa Central Kenya.

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Kintu

Kintu is a mythological figure who appears in a creation myth of the people of Buganda, Uganda. Protoplast (religion) and Kintu are creation myths, legendary progenitors and mythological first humans.

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Kumu-Honua

In Hawaiian Religion, Kumu-Honua ("first on Earth") is the first man. Protoplast (religion) and Kumu-Honua are mythological first humans.

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Lakota people

The Lakota (pronounced; Lakȟóta/Lakhóta) are a Native American people.

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Lalo-Honua

In Hawaiian mythology, Lalo-Honua (Hawaiian for "below the Earth") is the first woman. Protoplast (religion) and Lalo-Honua are mythological first humans.

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Lạc Long Quân

Lạc Long Quân "Dragon King of Lạc"; also called Sùng Lãm is an ancient king of the Hồng Bàng dynasty of ancient Vietnam.

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Líf and Lífþrasir

In Norse mythology, Líf (identical with the Old Norse noun meaning "life, the life of the body")Cleasby & Vigfusson s.v. líf. Protoplast (religion) and líf and Lífþrasir are legendary progenitors.

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Lilith

Lilith (Līlīṯ), also spelled Lilit, Lilitu, or Lilis, is a feminine figure in Mesopotamian and Jewish mythology, theorized to be the first wife of Adam and a primordial she-demon.

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List of Lakota deities

Below is a list of commonly recognized figures who are part of Lakota mythology, a Native American tribe with current lands in North and South Dakota.

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Mahabad (prophet)

Mahabad (Persian: مهاباد Mahābād) is believed to be a pre-Zoroastrian prophet or demigod. Protoplast (religion) and Mahabad (prophet) are mythological first humans.

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Mandaeism

Mandaeism (Classical Mandaic), sometimes also known as Nasoraeanism or Sabianism, is a Gnostic, monotheistic and ethnic religion with Greek, Iranian, and Jewish influences. Its adherents, the Mandaeans, revere Adam, Abel, Seth, Enos, Noah, Shem, Aram, and especially John the Baptist. Mandaeans consider Adam, Seth, Noah, Shem and John the Baptist prophets, with Adam being the founder of the religion and John being the greatest and final prophet.

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Manu (Hinduism)

Manu (मनु) is a term found with various meanings in Hinduism. Protoplast (religion) and Manu (Hinduism) are legendary progenitors and mythological first humans.

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Manvantara

A manvantara, in Hindu cosmology, is a cyclic period of time identifying the duration, reign, or age of a Manu, the progenitor of mankind.

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Mashya and Mashyana

According to the Zoroastrian cosmogony, Mashya and Mashyana were the first man and woman whose procreation gave rise to the human race. Protoplast (religion) and Mashya and Mashyana are creation myths, legendary progenitors and mythological first humans.

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Māori mythology

Māori mythology and Māori traditions are two major categories into which the remote oral history of New Zealand's Māori may be divided. Protoplast (religion) and Māori mythology are creation myths.

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Mārikoriko

In a Māori legend attributed by ethnographer John White to the Ngāti Hau tribe, Mārikoriko (Twilight) is the first woman, created by Ārohirohi (Shimmering heat) from the heat of the sun and the echoing cliff. Protoplast (religion) and Mārikoriko are legendary progenitors and mythological first humans.

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Mitochondrial Eve

In human genetics, the Mitochondrial Eve (more technically known as the Mitochondrial-Most Recent Common Ancestor, shortened to mt-Eve or mt-MRCA) is the matrilineal most recent common ancestor (MRCA) of all living humans.

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Muisca mythology

Knowledge of Muisca mythology has come from Muisca scholars Javier Ocampo López, Pedro Simón, Lucas Fernández de Piedrahita, Juan de Castellanos and conquistador Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada who was the European making first contact with the Muisca in the 1530s.

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Mumbi

Mũmbi Muthiga V is regarded as the mother of the Gĩkũyũ people. Protoplast (religion) and Mumbi are legendary progenitors.

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Nüwa

Nüwa, also read Nügua, is a mother goddess, culture hero, and/or member of the Three Sovereigns of Chinese mythology. Protoplast (religion) and Nüwa are creation myths.

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Noah

Noah appears as the last of the Antediluvian patriarchs in the traditions of Abrahamic religions.

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Norse mythology

Norse, Nordic, or Scandinavian mythology, is the body of myths belonging to the North Germanic peoples, stemming from Old Norse religion and continuing after the Christianization of Scandinavia, and into the Nordic folklore of the modern period.

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Oduduwa

Oduduwa was a Yoruba divine king, legendary founder of the Ife Empire and a creator deity (orisha) in the Yoruba religion. Protoplast (religion) and Oduduwa are legendary progenitors.

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Origin myth

An origin myth is a type of myth that explains the beginnings of a natural or social aspect of the world.

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Oxomoco

Oxomoco also known as Oxomo is an Aztec deity, the goddess of the night, the astrology and the calendar. Protoplast (religion) and Oxomoco are mythological first humans.

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Pacha Kamaq

Pachacamac or Pacha Kamaq (Quechua, "Creator of the World"; also Pacharurac) was the deity worshipped in the city of Pachacamac (modern-day Peru) by the Ichma. Protoplast (religion) and Pacha Kamaq are legendary progenitors.

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Pandora

In Greek mythology, Pandora (Greek: Πανδώρα, derived from πᾶν, pān, i.e. "all" and δῶρον, dōron, i.e. "gift", thus "the all-endowed", "all-gifted" or "all-giving") was the first human woman created by Hephaestus on the instructions of Zeus. Protoplast (religion) and Pandora are mythological first humans.

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Pangu

Pangu is a primordial being and creation figure in Chinese mythology and Taoism. Protoplast (religion) and Pangu are mythological first humans.

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Papa (mythology)

In Cook Islands mythology of the southern Cook Islands group, the earth goddess Papa was created when Varima-te-takere, the primordial mother goddess, plucked her out from the left side of her body.

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Philippine mythology

Philippine mythology is rooted in the many indigenous Philippine folk religions.

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Point of Sangomar

The Point of Sangomar is a sand spit located on the Atlantic Ocean at the mouth of the Saloum Delta, which marks the end of the Petite Côte west of Senegal.

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Polynesian mythology

Polynesian mythology encompasses the oral traditions of the people of Polynesia (a grouping of Central and South Pacific Ocean island archipelagos in the Polynesian Triangle) together with those of the scattered cultures known as the Polynesian outliers.

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Protoplast

Protoplast, is a biological term coined by Hanstein in 1880 to refer to the entire cell, excluding the cell wall.

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Pyrrha

In Greek mythology, Pyrrha (Pýrrha) was the daughter of Epimetheus and Pandora and wife of Deucalion of whom she had three sons, Hellen, Amphictyon, Orestheus; and three daughters Protogeneia, Pandora II and Thyia. Protoplast (religion) and Pyrrha are legendary progenitors.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protoplast_(religion)

Also known as Legendary progenitors of mankind, List of first men or women in mythology and religion, List of protoplasts, Progenitor of mankind.

, Māori mythology, Mārikoriko, Mitochondrial Eve, Muisca mythology, Mumbi, Nüwa, Noah, Norse mythology, Oduduwa, Origin myth, Oxomoco, Pacha Kamaq, Pandora, Pangu, Papa (mythology), Philippine mythology, Point of Sangomar, Polynesian mythology, Protoplast, Pyrrha, Roog, Serer creation myth, Serer people, Serer religion, Shatarupa, Shinto, Swayambhuva Manu, Tiki, Traditional African religions, Tuisto, Turkic mythology, Vaivasvata Manu, Vietnamese mythology, Wurugag and Waramurungundi, Y-chromosomal Adam, Yhi, Yoruba religion, Zoroastrianism.

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