Protoplast (religion)

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 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

Australian Aboriginal mythology

Abrahamic religions

Ayyavazhi mythology

Cherokee

Selu & Kanati

Chinese folk religion

Cowichan peoples
Germanic mythology

Greek mythology

Ho-Chunk

Hinduism

Inca mythology

Kikuyu people

Lakota people

Maori mythology

Navajo mythology

Norse mythology

Polynesian mythology

Philippine mythology

Shintoism

Turkic mythology

See also

References

  1. The Apocalypse of Moses, http://www2.iath.virginia.edu/anderson/vita/english/vita.lat.html#per39
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