emale, was the parent of the first man. This
man begat three sons who became the fathers of the three Deutsch tribes.
Ish (or Ash) was the parent of the Franks and Allemans; Ing was the
progenitor of the Swedes, Angles, and Saxons; and Er, or Erman, was the
eponymous leader of the tribes called by the Romans Hermiones.

The Kosmogony of the Chinese is similar in all respects to that of other
countries. The first man, Puoncu, was born from an egg.

The Chinese say that this egg-born Puoncu, who is identical with Brahm,
Noah, and Adam, is not the great Creator or God, but only the first man.
Their great God or Tien is a Unity which comprehends three, and their
human triad--a triplicated being who is the parent of the human race--is
a lower expression of the same power, and to him has finally been
ascribed the office of Creator.

The Kosmogony of the Japanese begins with the opening of the sacred egg
from which all things were produced. This egg is identical with the ark,
and from it the diluvian patriarch was born. He was "Baal-Peor or the
lord of opening; and, from an idea that the Ark was an universal mother,
he was considered as the masculine principle of generation, and was
adored by his apostate descendants with all the abominations of phallic
worship."

In the Theogony of Hesiod, Uranus is represented as being the parent of
three sons, and the same legend repeated in the story of Cronus portrays
him also as a triplicated deity. According to the Peruvian Kosmogony all
things sprang from Viracocha who is said to be identical with the Greek
Aphrodite. Besides this superior God they venerated a triad which
was closely connected with the sun. These gods were called Chuquilla,
Catuilla, and Intyllapa. They say that as their ancestors journeyed from
a remote country to the Northwest they bore the image of their god in a
coifer or box made of reeds. To the four priests who had charge of this
box or ark he communicated his oracles and directions. He not only gave
them laws but taught them the ceremonies and sacrifices which they were
to observe. "And even as the pillar of cloud and fire conducted the
Israelites in their passage through the wilderness, so this Spanish
devil gave them notice when to advance forward, and when to stay."(94)

94) Faber, Pagan Idolatry, book i., ch. v.

According to Marsden, the New Zealanders believe that three gods created
the first man, and that the first woman was made from one o