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Creation of life from clay

"Prometheus Creating Man in Clay" by Constantin Hansen
Creation of Adam from a block of clay in the Great Canterbury Psalter
Khnum (right) is a creator god who forms humans and gods out of clay. Here Isis (left) gives life.

The creation of life from clay can be seen as a miraculous birth theme that appears throughout world religions and mythologies. It can also be seen as one of gods who craft humans out of earthly materials. As such, this class of story falls within a larger set of divine or cosmogonic origin stories about creation, whether through divine emergence or divine craft.


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خلق الإنسان من طين Arabic آفرینش انسان از گل FA Création de la vie à partir d'argile French Stworzenie człowieka z gliny Polish

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