List of protoplasts
Not to be confused with protoplasts, the primitive cells or parts of a cell.
A protoplast, from ancient Greek πρωτόπλαστος (prōtóplastos, "first-formed"), is the mythological progenitor of mankind in a creation story (as in Adam and Eve), or of surviving humanity after a cataclysm (as in Deucalion or Noah).
List of protoplasts
- Adam & Eve
- Noah
- Adam Kadmon (esoteric)
- Lilith (esoteric)
- Cowichan peoples
- Quiltumtun
- Tuiscon - first ancestor of Germans
- Pandora - first woman
- Epimetheus - first Man (by some Accounts)
- Deucalion and Pyrrha (the first modern humans)
- Kunu
- An unnamed one-legged man
- Turtle
- Manus, including Sraddhadeva Manu
- Tokahe - first human emerged from the underworld
- Navajo mythology
- Áłtsé Hastiin and Áłtsé Asdzą́ą́
- Ask and Embla (former)
- Lif and Lifthrasir (future)
- Polynesian mythology
- Ele'ele
- Kumu-Honua and Lalo-Honua
- Marikoriko and Tiki
- Tu-Mea
- Tonga
- Vatea and Papa
- Shintoism
- Izanagi
- Izanami
See also
- Cosmic Man
- Discovery of human antiquity
- Eponymous ancestor
- Mitochondrial Eve
- Y-chromosome Adam