First man or woman
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First Human redirects here. First Man is also the biography of the first man to walk on the moon, Neil Armstrong.
Various creation myths have a first human, a legendary first human being. It can be either a pair, one male and one female, or a male.
Examples:
- Aboriginal mythology
- Wurugag and Waramurungundi
- No name, but see Yhi
- No name, but see Kidili
- Ayyavazhi
- Kaliyan and Kalicchi, the first man and woman of Kali Yukam, the present age.
- Chinese mythology
- Cowichan mythology
- Quiltumtun
- Greek mythology -
- Pandora - first woman
- Judaism, Christianity, Islam -
- Norse mythology -
- Ask and Embla - first humans created
- Lif and Lifthrasir - first humans to repopulate Earth after Ragnarok
- Greek mythology
- Hinduism
- Hotcâk mythology
- Kunu
- An un-named one-legged man
- Turtle
- Pachacamac mythology & Late Inca mythology
- First man and woman were not named; see Pacha Camac for more information
- Polynesian mythology
- Ele'ele
- Kumu-Honua and Lalo-Honua
- Marikoriko and Tiki
- Tu-Mea
- Tonga
- Vatea and Papa
- Philippine Mythology
- Malakas (Philippine mythology) (meaning strong) and Maganda (meaning beautiful)
