protology

noun3

1. •
   The branch of theology pertaining to origins and first things.

   • And hence the progress of the history of salvation is the progress of protology in the progressive development of its starting-point. — 1975
2. •
   A text or oral history giving the origins of a people.

   • Or, alternatively, perhaps they are the first human beings as described in tribal protologies. — 1997
3. •
   Misconstruction of proctology.