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Germanic mythology. Tuiscon - first ancestor of Germans; Greek mythology. Pandora - first woman; Epimetheus - first Man (by some Accounts) Deucalion and Pyrrha (the first postdiluvian humans) Hindu mythology. Svayambhuva Manu and Shatarupa (first couple on earth) Including Vaivasvata Manu and Shraddha (wife of Vaivasvata Manu) of current ...
Protesilaus was the first to land: "the first man who dared to leap ashore when the Greek fleet touched the Troad", Pausanias recalled, quoting the author of the epic tale called the Cypria. [6] An oracle by Thetis had prophesied that the first Greek to walk on the land after stepping off a ship in the Trojan War would be the first to die, [ 2 ...
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Proteus's name suggests the "first" (from Greek " πρῶτος" prōtos, "first"), as prōtogonos (πρωτόγονος) is the "primordial" or the "firstborn". It is not certain to what this refers, but in myths where he is the son of Poseidon, it possibly refers to his being Poseidon's eldest son, older than Poseidon's other son, the sea-god ...
In Greek mythology, Pelasgus (Ancient Greek: Πελασγός, Pelasgós means "ancient" [1]) was the eponymous ancestor of the Pelasgians, the mythical inhabitants of Greece who established the worship of the Dodonaean Zeus, Hephaestus, the Cabeiri, and other divinities. In the different parts of the country once occupied by Pelasgians, there ...
The first recorded account of the Prometheus myth appeared in the late 8th-century BC Greek epic poet Hesiod's Theogony . In that account, Prometheus was a son of the Titan Iapetus by Clymene or Asia , one of the Oceanids .
Some notable river gods include: Achelous, the god of the Achelous River, the largest river in Greece, who gave his daughter in marriage to Alcmaeon; Alpheus, who fell in love with the nymph Arethusa; Inachus, the first king of Argos and progenitor of Argive line through his son grandson Argus
Hesiod's Theogony, (c. 700 BCE) which could be considered the "standard" creation myth of Greek mythology, [1] tells the story of the genesis of the gods. After invoking the Muses (II.1–116), Hesiod says the world began with the spontaneous generation of four beings: first arose Chaos (Chasm); then came Gaia (the Earth), "the ever-sure foundation of all"; "dim" Tartarus (the Underworld), in ...