Lineage segment within an Indian caste, indicating common descent from a mythical ancestor.
Tuisto (Tuisco) - the mythical ancestor of all Germanic tribes.
Phlegyas was the mythical ancestor of the Phlegyans.
Both of these deities were considered to be the mythical ancestors of the K'iche' nobility by direct male line.
(Here "the Sacred" can be God, gods, mythical ancestors, or any other beings who established the world's structure.)
They take their name from a mythical ancestor known as Con Mhac "hound son".
Eliade argues that religion is based on a sharp distinction between the sacred (God, gods, mythical ancestors, etc.) and the profane.
By extension, the Trojans were adopted as the mythical ancestors of the Roman people.
It has been proposed that Achaemenes may merely have been a "mythical ancestor of the Persian royal house".
They take their name from a mythical ancestor known as Conmac.