Kyomarz or Gil-shah – First man
In Pre-Adamite Man (1863), Paschal Beverly Randolph retells a Persian story of the first man, whom he spells Kyomarz and also Kyomurz.
Randolph says God made Kyomarz once the last corrupt age was over.
"When all this was done, God called into existence a being named Kyomarz, or Gil-Shah; and he was the father of all the present human race…"
In his account, God had let the people of the earlier cities destroy themselves through war and crime, and Kyomarz began the race that came after.