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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 number of monolatristic traditions separate a secondary creator from a primary transcendent being, identified as a primary creator.
Problem of the creator of God. In philosophy, the problem of the creator of God is the controversy regarding the hypothetical cause responsible for the existence of God, on the assumption God exists. It contests the proposition that the universe cannot exist without a creator by asserting that the creator of the Universe must have the same ...
Enlil, [ a ] later known as Elil and Ellil, is an ancient Mesopotamian god associated with wind, air, earth, and storms. [ 4 ] He is first attested as the chief deity of the Sumerian pantheon, [ 5 ] but he was later worshipped by the Akkadians, Babylonians, Assyrians, and Hurrians. Enlil's primary center of worship was the Ekur temple in the ...
The Genesis creation narrative is the creation myth [a] of both Judaism and Christianity, [1] told in the Book of Genesis ch. 1–2. While the Jewish and Christian tradition is that the account is one comprehensive story [2] [3] modern scholars of biblical criticism identify the account as a composite work [4] made up of two stories drawn from different sources.
Yahweh[ a ] was an ancient Levantine deity, the national god of the Israelite kingdoms of Israel and Judah. [ 4 ][ 5 ] Though no consensus exists regarding the deity's origins, [ 6 ] scholars generally contend that Yahweh is associated with Seir, Edom, Paran and Teman, [ 7 ] and later with Canaan.
Enūma Eliš. Enūma Eliš (Akkadian Cuneiform: 𒂊𒉡𒈠𒂊𒇺, also spelled "Enuma Elish"), meaning "When on High", is a Babylonian creation myth (named after its opening words) from the late 2nd millennium BCE and the only complete surviving account of ancient near eastern cosmology. It was recovered by English archaeologist Austen ...
Anu (Akkadian: 𒀭𒀀𒉡ANU, from 𒀭 an "Sky", "Heaven") or Anum, originally An (Sumerian: 𒀭An), [ 10 ] was the divine personification of the sky, king of the gods, and ancestor of many of the deities in ancient Mesopotamian religion. He was regarded as a source of both divine and human kingship, and opens the enumerations of deities in ...
Ancient Egyptian creation myths are the ancient Egyptian accounts of the creation of the world. The Pyramid Texts, tomb wall decorations, and writings, dating back to the Old Kingdom (c. 2700–2200 BCE) have provided the majority of information regarding ancient Egyptian creation myths. [ 1 ] These myths also form the earliest recorded ...