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searchaux" style="display:none">Legendary figure held as a common ancestor of a dynasty or ethnic group</div> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p><p>A <b>legendary progenitor</b> is a <a href="/wiki/Legend" title="Legend">legendary</a> or <a href="/wiki/Mythological" class="mw-redirect" title="Mythological">mythological</a> figure held to be the <a href="/wiki/Common_ancestor" class="mw-redirect" title="Common ancestor">common ancestor</a> of a dynasty,<sup id="cite_ref-Berend2007_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Berend2007-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> people, tribe or ethnic group. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Overview">Overview</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Legendary_progenitor&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Overview"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Masculinity" title="Masculinity">Masculinity</a>, <a href="/wiki/Femininity" title="Femininity">femininity</a> and <i>"ghenos"</i> or <a href="/wiki/Kinship" title="Kinship">lineage</a> linked to legendary progenitors were fundamental concepts of <a href="/wiki/Family" title="Family">family</a> identity in the <a href="/wiki/Etruscan_civilization" title="Etruscan civilization">Etruscan</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Greek" title="Ancient Greek">Ancient Greek</a> eras. The Greeks demonstrated the principles of family functionality in the mythological lives of <a href="/wiki/Zeus" title="Zeus">Zeus</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hera" title="Hera">Hera</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hestia" title="Hestia">Hestia</a> and <a href="/wiki/Hermes" title="Hermes">Hermes</a>. These included communal dining, and <i>"charis"</i> a form of <a href="/wiki/Principle_of_charity" title="Principle of charity">charity</a> that Vittoro Cigoli and Eugena Scabini described as being "deployed to oppose the core of violence inherent in the family relationship". Etrusco-Roman culture, developed from the Greek where each <i>"<a href="/wiki/Gens" title="Gens">gens</a>"</i> (family or house) had their own deified hero, prince or demi-god along with various household deities. The expansion of family trees to include heroic or legendary ancestors was used to boost social status and amass personal finances. Rome's patriarchal families, along with later <a href="/wiki/Europe" title="Europe">European</a> dynasties engaged in power struggles, such as that to be elected <a href="/wiki/Pope" title="Pope">Pope</a> based on this change in family culture.<sup id="cite_ref-CigoliScabini2006_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CigoliScabini2006-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Peoples from all over the world have supposed themselves descended from various different eponymic or mythical progenitors. The <a href="/wiki/Italy" title="Italy">Italians</a> claimed ancestry from <a href="/wiki/Italus" title="Italus">Italus</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lydia" title="Lydia">Lydians</a> from <a href="/wiki/Lydus" title="Lydus">Lydus</a>, <a href="/wiki/Phoenicia" title="Phoenicia">Phoenicians</a> associated with <a href="/wiki/Phoenix_(mythology)" title="Phoenix (mythology)">Phoenix</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sicily" title="Sicily">Sicilians</a> legendary progenitor was <a href="/wiki/Siculus" title="Siculus">Siculus</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pelasgians" title="Pelasgians">Pelasgians</a> revered <a href="/wiki/Pelasgus" title="Pelasgus">Pelasgus</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dorians" title="Dorians">Dorians</a> traced lineage to <a href="/wiki/Dorus" class="mw-redirect" title="Dorus">Dorus</a>, <a href="/wiki/Aeolians" title="Aeolians">Aeolians</a> were linked to <a href="/wiki/Aeolus" title="Aeolus">Aeolus</a> and <a href="/wiki/Hellenes" class="mw-redirect" title="Hellenes">Hellenes</a> looked up to <a href="/wiki/Hellen" title="Hellen">Hellen</a>. Legendary progenitors also gave their names to places, <a href="/wiki/Memphis,_Egypt" title="Memphis, Egypt">Memphis</a> was alleged to have been built by <a href="/wiki/Menes" title="Menes">Menes</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ninevah" class="mw-redirect" title="Ninevah">Ninevah</a> by <a href="/wiki/Ninus" title="Ninus">Ninus</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Taylor2005_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Taylor2005-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In later times, <a href="/wiki/Place_name" class="mw-redirect" title="Place name">place names</a> in <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">Britain</a> were given the names of legendary <a href="/wiki/Tribal_chief" title="Tribal chief">chieftains</a> or <a href="/wiki/Anglo-Saxon_royal_genealogies" title="Anglo-Saxon royal genealogies">Anglo-Saxon Kings</a>. <a href="/wiki/Isaac_Taylor" title="Isaac Taylor">Isaac Taylor</a> (1787–1865) suggested that "minute fragments of historic truth have been conserved". He noted however that the "greatest caution must be exercised as to the conclusions which we allow ourselves to draw. The traditions are generally vague and obscure and the personages whose names are associated with these sites have often only a mythical, or, to speak technically, an <i>eponymic</i> existence."<sup id="cite_ref-Taylor2005_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Taylor2005-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Europe">Europe</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Legendary_progenitor&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Europe"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In Armenian mythology, <a href="/wiki/Hayk" title="Hayk">Hayk the Great</a> or The Great Hayk, also known as Hayk Nahapet, is the legendary patriarch and founder of the <a href="/wiki/Armenians" title="Armenians">Armenian nation</a>. His story is told in the <i><a href="/wiki/History_of_Armenia_(Moses_of_Chorene)" class="mw-redirect" title="History of Armenia (Moses of Chorene)">History of Armenia</a></i> attributed to the Armenian historian <a href="/wiki/Moses_of_Chorene" class="mw-redirect" title="Moses of Chorene">Moses of Chorene</a> (A.D.410 to 490).<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In various <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Greece" title="Ancient Greece">Greek</a> myths, <a href="/wiki/Melampus" title="Melampus">Melampus</a> is the legendary progenitor of a great, long line of seers. Along with his brother <a href="/wiki/Bias_(son_of_Amythaon)" title="Bias (son of Amythaon)">Bias</a>, they became kings of territory in the Argeian and was acknowledged as a leader in <a href="/wiki/Homer" title="Homer">Homer</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Odyssey" title="Odyssey">Odyssey</a>. His grandson is recorded as the prophet <a href="/wiki/Theoklymenos" class="mw-redirect" title="Theoklymenos">Theoklymenos</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Esq.1854_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Esq.1854-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Niccol%C3%B2_Machiavelli" title="Niccolò Machiavelli">Niccolò Machiavelli</a> discussed how in <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Rome" title="Ancient Rome">Ancient Rome</a>, <a href="/wiki/Aeneas" title="Aeneas">Aeneas</a> the <a href="/wiki/Troy" title="Troy">Trojan</a> and <a href="/wiki/Romulus" title="Romulus">Romulus</a> were alternately said to have been the city's legendary founders. He considered how one's view of history could be influenced by the preference of one progenitor over another, saying, "if whoever examines the building of Rome takes Aeneas for its first progenitor [<span title="Italian-language text"><i lang="it">primo progenitore</i></span>], it will be of those cities built by foreigners, while if he takes Romulus it will be of those built by men native to the place". Machiavelli does not take a preference and suggests Rome had "a free beginning, without depending on anyone".<sup id="cite_ref-Benner2009_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Benner2009-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In his <i><a href="/wiki/Germania_(book)" title="Germania (book)">Germania</a></i>, <a href="/wiki/Tacitus" title="Tacitus">Tacitus</a> asserted that the <i><a href="/wiki/Germanic_peoples" title="Germanic peoples">Germani</a></i> (not their original name according to Tacitus) celebrated 'an earth-born god, Tuisco, and his son Mannus, as the origin of their race, as their founders. To Mannus they assign three sons, from whose names, they say, the coast tribes are called Ingaevones; those of the interior, Herminones; all the rest, Istaevones.'<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGoffart1983118_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGoffart1983118-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Varying manuscripts of the early medieval <a href="/wiki/Frankish_Table_of_Nations" title="Frankish Table of Nations">Frankish Table of Nations</a> claim that thirteen Germanic tribes were descended from three brothers: <i>Erminus</i>, <i>Inguo</i>, and <i>Istio</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGoffart1983114–115_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGoffart1983114–115-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The names of these three brothers are evidently derived from the tribal names mentioned by Tacitus in the <i>Germania</i> (where the brothers go unnamed): <i>Erminus</i> from <i>Herminones</i>, <i>Inguo</i> from <i>Ingaevones</i>, and <i>Istio</i> from <i>Istaevones</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGoffart1983118_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGoffart1983118-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Most <a href="/wiki/Frankish_Table_of_Nations#Variations" title="Frankish Table of Nations">variations of the Table</a> don't mention their father's name, but two manuscripts precede the Table by mentioning <i>Analeus</i> or <i>Allanius</i> as "the first king of the Romans", two others name "Mulius" as the three brothers' father, while the <i><a href="/wiki/Historia_Brittonum" title="Historia Brittonum">Historia Brittonum</a></i> calls their father "Alanus".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGoffart1983110–112_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGoffart1983110–112-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/M%C3%ADl_Esp%C3%A1ine" title="Míl Espáine">Míl Espáine</a> is recorded in <a href="/wiki/Christianity" title="Christianity">Christian</a> writings to be the legendary progenitor of the <a href="/wiki/Gael" class="mw-redirect" title="Gael">Gaels</a> or <a href="/wiki/Goidelic_languages" title="Goidelic languages">Goidels</a> of <a href="/wiki/Ireland" title="Ireland">Ireland</a>. He was suggested to have led the <a href="/wiki/Milesians_(Irish)" title="Milesians (Irish)">Milesians</a> to be the final inhabitants of Ireland.<sup id="cite_ref-McCabe2005_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-McCabe2005-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The five ancestors of <a href="/wiki/Mieszko_I" title="Mieszko I">Mieszko I</a> as well as <a href="/wiki/Cho%C5%9Bcisko" title="Chościsko">Chościsko</a>, the father of <a href="/wiki/Piast_the_Wheelwright" title="Piast the Wheelwright">Piast the Wheelwright</a> have all been suggested as legendary progenitors of the <a href="/wiki/Piast_dynasty" title="Piast dynasty">Piast dynasty</a> in <a href="/wiki/Poland" title="Poland">Poland</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Berend2007_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Berend2007-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Middle_East">Middle East</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Legendary_progenitor&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Middle East"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the <a href="/wiki/Middle_East" title="Middle East">Middle East</a>, <a href="/wiki/Abraham" title="Abraham">Abraham</a> (originally Abram) is regarded as the patriarch of the <a href="/wiki/Arab_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Arab people">Arab people</a> and <a href="/wiki/Jewish_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Jewish people">Jewish people</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Bible" title="Bible">Bible</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Quran" title="Quran">Quran</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Chatterji1973_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Chatterji1973-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the <a href="/wiki/Book_of_Genesis" title="Book of Genesis">Book of Genesis</a>, he is blessed with this honour by <a href="/wiki/God" title="God">God</a>, saying "Your name will be Abraham, for I have made you a father of many nations".<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Asia">Asia</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Legendary_progenitor&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Asia"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Dangun" title="Dangun">Tan'Gun</a> is the legendary forebear of the <a href="/wiki/Korea" title="Korea">Korean</a> people.<sup id="cite_ref-FootRobinson2012_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FootRobinson2012-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In <a href="/wiki/India" title="India">Indian</a> <a href="/wiki/Hinduism" title="Hinduism">Hinduism</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Rishi" title="Rishi">Rishis</a> regarded <a href="/wiki/Manu_(Hinduism)" title="Manu (Hinduism)">Manu</a> as the legendary ancestor of the ancient <a href="/wiki/Indian_people" title="Indian people">Indian people</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Rig_Veda" class="mw-redirect" title="Rig Veda">Rig Veda</a>. This tradition was carried forward in the <a href="/wiki/Brahamanas" class="mw-redirect" title="Brahamanas">Brahamanas</a>, <a href="/wiki/Puranas" title="Puranas">Puranas</a>, <a href="/wiki/Matsya_Purana" title="Matsya Purana">Matsya Purana</a>, <a href="/wiki/Vishnu_Purana" title="Vishnu Purana">Vishnu Purana</a> and <a href="/w/index.php?title=Aitareya_Brahama&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Aitareya Brahama (page does not exist)">Aitareya Brahama</a>. <a href="/wiki/Brahma" title="Brahma">Brahma</a> is also mentioned as the progenitor of Manu. Manu Vaivasvata is the progenitor of current <a href="/wiki/Manvantara" title="Manvantara">Manvantara</a> and ancestor of all ancient royal dynasties </p><p><a href="/wiki/Nyatri_Tsenpo" title="Nyatri Tsenpo">Nyatri Tsenpo</a> was a legendary progenitor of the so-called "Yarlung dynasty" of kings in Tibet.<sup id="cite_ref-Marcello2003_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Marcello2003-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Tsenpo, or <i>"gNya'-khri btsan-po"</i> has been suggested to have descended from an Indian dynasty and hence linked with <a href="/wiki/Buddha" class="mw-redirect" title="Buddha">Buddha</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Dam-pa)1994_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dam-pa)1994-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In <a href="/wiki/Tibet" title="Tibet">Tibet</a>, the term is also connected with a <i>spiritual progenitor</i>. <a href="/wiki/Tibetan_Buddhism" title="Tibetan Buddhism">Tibetan Buddhists</a> believe their ancestors to be famous <a href="/wiki/Teacher" title="Teacher">teachers</a> or <a href="/wiki/Translator" class="mw-redirect" title="Translator">translators</a>. They consider that single spiritual progenitors can incarnate in various different people simultaneously in different <a href="/wiki/Geographical" class="mw-redirect" title="Geographical">geographical</a> locations. These progenitors are given names based on their qualities and physical locations. Examples include <i>"Prince <a href="/wiki/Lion" title="Lion">Lion</a> the teacher of Rgya"</i> and <i>"<a href="/wiki/Karma" title="Karma">Karma</a>, <a href="/wiki/Light" title="Light">Light</a> of <a href="/wiki/Knowledge" title="Knowledge">Knowledge</a> and <a href="/wiki/Love" title="Love">Love</a> the Mkhyen-brtse at Dpal-spuns"</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-Beyer1992_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Beyer1992-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In <a href="/wiki/Chinese_mythology" title="Chinese mythology">Chinese mythology</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Goddess" title="Goddess">goddess</a> <a href="/wiki/N%C3%BCwa" title="Nüwa">Nüwa</a> is a legendary <a href="/wiki/Progenitor" title="Progenitor">progenitor</a> of all human beings. She also creates a <a href="/wiki/Magic_(paranormal)" class="mw-redirect" title="Magic (paranormal)">magic</a> stone.<sup id="cite_ref-Gu2006_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gu2006-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Her husband <a href="/wiki/Fu_Xi" class="mw-redirect" title="Fu Xi">Fu Xi</a> is suggested to be the progenitor of <a href="/wiki/Divination" title="Divination">divination</a> and the patron saint of <a href="/wiki/Number" title="Number">numbers</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Lewis2006_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lewis2006-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In <a href="/wiki/Bali" title="Bali">Bali</a>, a legendary forefather or <i>"stamvader"</i> was called <a href="/w/index.php?title=Wau_Rauh&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wau Rauh (page does not exist)">Wau Rauh</a>. He was a <a href="/wiki/Myth" title="Myth">mythical</a> <a href="/wiki/Brahmin" title="Brahmin">Brahmin</a> high priest of <a href="/wiki/Majapahit" title="Majapahit">Majapahit</a> who established a five classes.<sup id="cite_ref-Blackwood1970_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Blackwood1970-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He had five wives and five children and founded Brahamanic <a href="/wiki/Clan" title="Clan">clans</a> such as Kamenuh, Nauba, <a href="/wiki/Gelgel,_Indonesia" title="Gelgel, Indonesia">Gelgel</a>, Kayusunia and Andapan.<sup id="cite_ref-Boon1977_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Boon1977-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Prince_Vijaya" title="Prince Vijaya">Prince Vijaya</a> has been discussed as a legendary primogenitor of the <a href="/wiki/Sinhalese_people" title="Sinhalese people">Sinhalese people</a> of <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lanka" title="Sri Lanka">Sri Lanka</a>. He is recorded in the Sri Lankan <a href="/wiki/Pali" title="Pali">Pali</a> chronicles as the first <a href="/wiki/King" title="King">king</a> and described going on a mythical quest. <a href="/wiki/Monarch" title="Monarch">Monarchs</a> continued to reign in the <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Kandy" title="Kingdom of Kandy">Kingdom of Kandy</a> until being deposed by the <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">British</a> under the terms of the <a href="/wiki/Kandyan_Convention" title="Kandyan Convention">Kandyan Convention</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Holt2011_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Holt2011-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Americas">Americas</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Legendary_progenitor&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Americas"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Mythical progenitors are honoured in <a href="/wiki/Song" title="Song">songs</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dance" title="Dance">dance</a> and instrumental performance by the <a href="/wiki/Mby%C3%A1" class="mw-redirect" title="Mbyá">Mbyá</a> people in <a href="/wiki/Argentina" title="Argentina">Argentina</a>. Their songs invoke the names of various <a href="/wiki/Deities" class="mw-redirect" title="Deities">deities</a> which are believed to <a href="/wiki/Reincarnate" class="mw-redirect" title="Reincarnate">reincarnate</a> as souls in new children. Their multitude of legendary progenitors are considered to "dictate actions carried out by their children on earth".<sup id="cite_ref-Kuss2004_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kuss2004-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Patrick Wolfe has discussed the work of Scottish <a href="/wiki/Ethnologist" class="mw-redirect" title="Ethnologist">ethnologist</a> <a href="/wiki/John_Ferguson_McLennan" title="John Ferguson McLennan">John Ferguson McLennan</a> in his study The Worship of Animals and Plants (1869, 1870) regarding the role of legendary progenitors in <a href="/wiki/Totemism" class="mw-redirect" title="Totemism">Totemism</a>, practised by <a href="/wiki/Indigenous_peoples_of_the_Americas" title="Indigenous peoples of the Americas">Native Americans</a>. He suggested that <i>"patrilineal <a href="/wiki/Totem" title="Totem">totem</a> stocks were endowed with fictional ancestral figures who were well suited to provide a basis from which subsequent and more sublime theologies might develop"</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-Wolfe1998_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Wolfe1998-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Africa">Africa</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Legendary_progenitor&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Africa"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Raccolte_Extraeuropee_-_Passar%C3%A9_00143_-_Recipiente_Dogon_-_Mali_(3).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/Raccolte_Extraeuropee_-_Passar%C3%A9_00143_-_Recipiente_Dogon_-_Mali_%283%29.jpg/220px-Raccolte_Extraeuropee_-_Passar%C3%A9_00143_-_Recipiente_Dogon_-_Mali_%283%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/Raccolte_Extraeuropee_-_Passar%C3%A9_00143_-_Recipiente_Dogon_-_Mali_%283%29.jpg/330px-Raccolte_Extraeuropee_-_Passar%C3%A9_00143_-_Recipiente_Dogon_-_Mali_%283%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/Raccolte_Extraeuropee_-_Passar%C3%A9_00143_-_Recipiente_Dogon_-_Mali_%283%29.jpg/440px-Raccolte_Extraeuropee_-_Passar%C3%A9_00143_-_Recipiente_Dogon_-_Mali_%283%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="533" /></a><figcaption>The "Ark of the world", in which <a href="/wiki/Nommo" title="Nommo">Nommo</a>, the mythical progenitor of humanity is supposed to have come down from the sky.</figcaption></figure> <p>David Conrad discusses how ancient <a href="/wiki/Mali" title="Mali">Mali</a>'s ruling elite adopted composite characters of <a href="/wiki/Islam" title="Islam">Islamic</a> forebears into legendary progenitors. Such a composite image is discussed as a character called <a href="/w/index.php?title=Fosana&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Fosana (page does not exist)">Fosana</a>, whose legends are told as "a collage of loosely connected incidents from the <a href="/wiki/Prophet" title="Prophet">Prophet</a>'s life and times". Fragments of the stories of Fosana have been connected with events in the lives of <a href="/wiki/Bilal_ibn_Rabah_al-Habashi" class="mw-redirect" title="Bilal ibn Rabah al-Habashi">Bilal ibn Rabah al-Habashi</a> and <a href="/wiki/Suraqa_bin_Malik" class="mw-redirect" title="Suraqa bin Malik">Suraqa bin Malik</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Conrad1995_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Conrad1995-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Australia">Australia</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Legendary_progenitor&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Australia"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In <a href="/wiki/Arnhem_Land" title="Arnhem Land">Arnhem Land</a> in <a href="/wiki/Australia" title="Australia">Australia</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Kunwinjku_people" title="Kunwinjku people">Kunwinjku</a> people consider <a href="/wiki/Wurugag_and_Waramurungundi" title="Wurugag and Waramurungundi">Wurugag and Waramurungundi</a> to be their original ancestors and have depicted them in their <a href="/wiki/Tribal_art" title="Tribal art">tribal art</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-LeemingLeeming1994_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LeemingLeeming1994-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Robert Alun Jones discussed <a href="/wiki/Walter_Baldwin_Spencer" title="Walter Baldwin Spencer">Baldwin Spencer</a>'s study of the <a href="/wiki/Alcheringa_(disambiguation)" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="Alcheringa (disambiguation)">Alcheringa</a> ancestors of the <a href="/wiki/Arunta" title="Arunta">Arunta</a> tribe in Australia as having both a spirit <i>"ulthana"</i> and a <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/syzygy" class="extiw" title="wikt:syzygy">syzygy</a> spirit <i>"arumburinga"</i>. The syzygy spirit reincarnating repetitively as a reflection of the spirit of a single <i>alcheringa</i> ancestor.<sup id="cite_ref-Jones2005_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Jones2005-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-SpencerGillen2010_28-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SpencerGillen2010-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Primogenitors">Primogenitors</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Legendary_progenitor&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Primogenitors"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In <a href="/wiki/Creation_myth" title="Creation myth">creation myths</a>, the <a href="/wiki/List_of_first_men_or_women_in_mythology_and_religion" class="mw-redirect" title="List of first men or women in mythology and religion">first man and woman</a> extend the concept to all of mankind. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Legendary_progenitor&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mitochondrial_Eve" title="Mitochondrial Eve">Mitochondrial Eve</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Legendary_progenitor&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output 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