Protoplast (religion)
A protoplast, from ancient Greek πρωτόπλαστος, in a religious context initially referred to the first human or, more generally, to the first organized body of progenitors of mankind in a creation myth, or of surviving humanity after a cataclysm.;Australian Aboriginal mythology
;Abrahamic religions
;Ayyavazhi mythology
;Aztec mythology
;Baganda
;Cherokee
;Chinese folk religion
;Cowichan peoples
;Germanic mythology
- Tuiscon - first ancestor of Germans
;Greek mythology
;Ho-Chunk
- Kunu
- An unnamed one-legged man
- Turtle
;Hinduism
;Inca mythology
;Lakota people
;Maori mythology
;Muisca mythology
;Navajo mythology
;Norse mythology
;Polynesian mythology
;Philippine mythology
;Shintoism
;Traditional African religions
- Kikuyu
- *Gikuyu and Mumbi
- Serer creation myth
- *YAAB and YOP
- *Unan and Ngoor
- *Jambooñ and Agaire
- Yoruba mythology
- *Oduduwa and Obatala
- *Iya Nla
;Turkic mythology
;Zoroastrianism