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===Similar Deities === A similarity between Prajapati (and related figures in [[Hindu mythology]]) and [[Phanes]], also named as Protogonus ({{langx|grc|Πρωτογόνος}}, literally "first-born") of the [[Classical mythology|Greco-Roman mythology]] has been proposed:<ref>Martin West, ''Early Greek Philosophy and the Orient''. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1971: 28-34</ref><ref name=alsobrook20>Kate Alsobrook (2008), "The Beginning of Time: Vedic and Orphic Theogonies and Poetics". M.A. Thesis, Reviewers: James Sickinger, Kathleen Erndl, John Marincola and Svetla Slaveva-Griffin, Florida State University, pages 20, 1-5, 24-25, 40-44</ref> {{Blockquote|Phanes is the [[Greco-Roman mythology|Classical mythology]] equivalent of the Hindu god Brahma's Prajapati form in several ways: he is the first god born from a cosmic egg, he is the creator of the universe, and in the figure of [[Phanes]]— worshippers participate in his birth, death, rebirth, redeath. |Kate Alsobrook|''The Beginning of Time: Hindu Greco-Roman Theogonies and Poetics''<ref name=alsobrook20/>}} According to Robert Graves, the name of /PRA-JĀ[N]-pati/ ('progeny-potentate') is etymologically equivalent to that of the oracular god Phanes at [[Colophon (city)|Colophon]] (according to Macrobius<ref>Robert Graves : ''The Greek Myths''. 1955. vol. 1, p. 31, sec. 2.2</ref>), namely /prōtogonos/.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-08-12 |title=Protogonos Greek First Born From Prajapati Hinduism |url=https://ramanisblog.in/2020/08/12/protogonos-greek-first-born-from-prajapati-hinduism/ |access-date=2024-11-24 |website=Ramanisblog |language=en}}</ref> The cosmic egg concept linked to Prajapati and Phanes is common in many parts of the world, states David Leeming, which appears in later Greco-Roman worship in Greece and Rome.<ref>{{cite book|author=David Adams Leeming|title=Creation Myths of the World: An Encyclopedia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9I62BcuPxfYC |year=2010|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-1-59884-174-9|pages=313–314}}</ref>
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