First man or woman

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First Man redirects here. First Man is also the biography of the first man to walk on the moon, Neil Armstrong.

Various creation stories have a first man, the first human being. This was generally either a male, or a pair, one male and one female.

Examples:

Aboriginal mythology
*Wurugag and Waramurungundi
*No name, but see Yhi
*No name, but see Kidili
Cowichan mythology
*Quiltumtun
Judaism, Christianity, Islam -
*Adam and Eve.
*Lilith
Norse mythology -
*Askr and Embla - first humans created
*Lif and Lifthrasir - first humans to repopulate Earth after Ragnarok
Greek mythology
*Deucalion and Pyrrha (the first modern humans, though there were other races first)
Hinduism
*Yama and Yami
Hotcâk mythology
*Kunu
*An un-named one-legged man
*Turtle
Pachacamac mythology & Late Inca mythology
*First man and woman were not named; see Pacha Camac for more information
Polynesian mythology
*Ele'ele
*Kumu-Honua and Lalo-Honua
*Marikoriko and Tiki
*Tu-Mea
*Tonga
*Vatea and Papa

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