Primordial progenitor of life
A motif, one of the traits figures share. All traits.
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6 figures
Tiamat represents the primordial sea from which all life emerged.
Atea is a progenitor: gods, the beings of the world, and in some accounts humanity descend from unions attributed to him
Itherther is a primordial bull of Kabyle (Berber) cosmogony, who together with the cow Thamuatz and their calf is remembered as among the first beings to exist on earth. Itherther is a primordial bull figure from Kabyle, or Berber, cosmogonic tradition of North Africa, sometimes glossed in English-language reference works simply as Buffalo.
With his female counterpart Amunet he was counted among the Eight of Hermopolis, the primeval powers of the world before creation, where the pair personified hidden force; when he became national god, his theologians recast him as the invisible and unknowable power that first set life moving.
Cipactli represents the primordial sea from which all life emerged.
foundational sea goddess and mother of all sea creatures