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.

List of protoplasts

;Australian Aboriginal mythology
;Abrahamic religions
;Ayyavazhi mythology
;Aztec mythology
;Baganda
;Cherokee
;Chinese folk religion
;Cowichan peoples
;Germanic mythology
;Greek mythology
;Ho-Chunk
;Hinduism
;Inca mythology
;Lakota people
;Maori mythology
;Muisca mythology
;Navajo mythology
;Norse mythology
;Polynesian mythology
;Philippine mythology
;Shintoism
;Traditional African religions
;Turkic mythology
;Zoroastrianism