Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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 number of monolatristic traditions separate a secondary creator from a primary transcendent being, identified as a primary creator.
Creator gods, male gods 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. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Creator gods .
A creator deity is a deity responsible for creating the universe or specific aspects of the world. Creator deities are found in the mythologies of nearly all theistic ...
In Hesiod's creation myth, Chaos is the first being to ever exist. Chaos is both seen as a deity and a thing, with some sources seeing chaos as an endless void of nothingness in which the universe sprang from. [5] In some accounts Chaos existed first alongside Eros and Nyx, [5] while in others Chaos is the first and only thing in the universe.
Ptah (/ t ɑː / TAH; [1] Ancient Egyptian: ptḥ, reconstructed; Ancient Greek: Φθά, romanized: Phthá; Coptic: ⲡⲧⲁϩ, romanized: Ptah; Phoenician: 𐤐𐤕𐤇, romanized: ptḥ) [2] [3] [note 1] is an ancient Egyptian deity, a creator god [4] and patron deity of craftsmen and architects.
Aten – Sun disk deity who became the focus of the monolatrous or monotheistic Atenist belief system in the reign of Akhenaten, was also the literal Sun disk [9] Atum – A creator god and solar deity, first god of the Ennead [10] Bennu – A solar and creator deity, depicted as a Heron [11] Geb – An earth god and member of the Ennead [12]
In monotheistic belief systems, God is usually viewed as the supreme being, creator, and principal object of faith. [1] In polytheistic belief systems, a god is "a spirit or being believed to have created, or for controlling some part of the universe or life, for which such a deity is often worshipped". [2]
Different myths attributed the creation to different gods: the set of eight primordial deities called the Ogdoad, the contemplative deity Ptah, and the mysterious, transcendent god Amun. While these differing cosmogonies competed to some extent, in other ways they were complementary, as different aspects of the Egyptian understanding of creation.