Creator deity
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A creator deity or creator god is a deity responsible for the creation of the Earth, world, and universe in human religion and mythology. In monotheism, the single God is often also the creator. A num
The universe, photographed by the Hubble Space Telescope. The fact of its existence prompts various conceptions of its cause, often proposed to be a being with a will, known as a creator deity.
God Blessing the Seventh Day, 1805 watercolor painting by William Blake
Brahma is often associated with Creation in Hinduism; however, has been demoted to a secondary creator in post-Vedic period.
Demiurge
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In the Platonic, Neopythagorean, Middle Platonic, and Neoplatonic schools of philosophy, the Demiurge is an artisan-like figure responsible for fashioning and maintaining the physical universe. Variou
Creator deity
…development. According to this view, church fathers opposed notions appearing in pre-Christian creation myths and in Gnosticism—notions of creation by a demiurge out of a primordial state of matter (known in religious studies as chaos after the Greek term used by Hesiod in his Theogony). Jewish thinkers took up…
A lion-faced, serpentine deity found on a Gnostic gem in Bernard de Montfaucon's L'antiquité expliquée et représentée en figures, a depiction of Yaldabaoth