Prōtogonos (English spelling)

Japanese: Prōtogonos(英語表記)Protogonos
Prōtogonos (English spelling)

…From this, a god with golden wings, a bull's head on his side, and a giant snake on his head was born. This god is called Protogonos (meaning "the first-born") or Zeus. The above is based on Hesiod's theory of the creation of the universe, but it is created by mixing in strange and ancient images that are not found in the theory, and some scholars point out the influence of Egyptian mythology. …

From 【Eggs】

...The egg was later held by a giant snake, from which the ordered universe (cosmos) hatched. The Greek Orphic mythology tells us that Aithēr, the god of the heavens, mated with Chronos or Chaos to create a giant silver egg from which the first hermaphrodite god Prōtogonos (the first-born) or Phanēs (light) was born. In Egyptian mythology, the sun god Ra was born from a golden egg laid by a Nile goose, and the creator god Khnum also spat out an egg from his mouth, which became the source of language.

*Some of the terminology explanations that mention "Prōtogonos" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…そこから黄金の翼をもち,脇腹に牛の頭,頭上に巨大な蛇をつけた神が生じた。これがプロトゴノスPrōtogonos(〈最初に生まれた者〉の意)ともゼウスとも呼ばれるのだという。以上はヘシオドスの宇宙生成説を前提としつつ,そこにない奇怪で太古的なイメージを混入してでき上がっており,エジプト神話の影響を指摘する学者もいる。…

【卵】より

…この卵は後に巨蛇に抱かれ,そこから秩序宇宙(コスモス)が孵化したという。またギリシアのオルフェウス教による神話は,上天の神アイテルAithērがクロノスないしカオスと交わって巨大な銀色の卵をつくり,そこから最初の両性具有神プロトゴノスPrōtogonos(〈最初に生まれた者〉)あるいはファネスPhanēs(〈光明〉)が生まれたと説く。さらにエジプト神話では,ナイル川のガチョウが産んだ黄金の卵から太陽神ラーが誕生し,創造神クヌムKhnumも口から卵を吐きだしこれを言語の源としたと語られている。…

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