and eventually came out as fully-grown adults. Other narratives attribute the creation of humanity to Nhialac blowing his nose or believe that humans came from the sky and were placed upon a river as full-grown adults. The Dogon people believe the Earth goddess was made when Amma flung earth into the primordial void. Ara and Irik, two bird spirits from Bornean myth, created humans from clay and the sound of their own voices. Iñupiat mythology has Raven create a human out of clay, who would later become Tornaq, the first demon. Andamanese Mythology women were fashioned from clay (while the men emerged from split bamboo). In Vietnamese mythology, the Ngọc Hoàng and the Twelve Bà mụ created people from clay. In science The role of clay minerals in abiogenesis was suggested in a 2013 paper titled Clay Minerals and the Origin of Life. In fiction The superheroine Wonder Woman was sculpted from clay by her mother Hippolyta and given life by the Greek gods. References Further reading Bellows, Henry Adams (Trans.) (1936). The Poetic Edda. Princeton University Press. New York: The American-Scandinavian Foundation. Leeming, D. A. (2008). The Oxford illustrated companion to world mythology. New York: Tess Press. Byock, Jesse (Trans.) (2006). The Prose Edda. Penguin Classics. Davidson, H. R. Ellis (1975). Scandinavian Mythology. Paul Hamlyn. Dronke, Ursula (Trans.) (1997). The Poetic Edda: Volume II: Mythological Poems. Oxford University Press. Larrington, Carolyne (Trans.) (1999). The Poetic Edda. Oxford World's Classics. Lindow, John (2001). Norse Mythology: A Guide to the Gods, Heroes, Rituals, and Beliefs. Oxford University Press. Orchard, Andy (1997). Dictionary of Norse Myth and Legend. Cassell. Puhvel, Jaan (1989 [1987]). Comparative Mythology. Johns Hopkins University Press. Schach, Paul (1985). "Some Thoughts on Völuspá" as collected in Glendinning, R. J. Bessason, Heraldur (Editors). Edda: a Collection of Essays. University of Manitoba Press. Simek, Rudolf (2007) translated by Angela Hall. Dictionary of Northern Mythology. D.S. Brewer. Thorpe, Benjamin (Trans.) (1907). The Elder Edda of Saemund Sigfusson. Norrœna Society. Thorpe, Benjamin (Trans.) (1866). Edda Sæmundar Hinns Frôða: The Edda of Sæmund the Learned. Part I. London: Trübner & Co. Steele, P. R., & Allen, C. J. (2004). Handbook of Inca mythology. In Handbook of Inca mythology (pp. 53-54). Santa Barbara, Calif: ABC-CLIO. Creation myths Comparative mythology