creation
utility
Figures wielding this power (11)
Quetzalcóatl · salience 0.9
“In some accounts, he plays a crucial role in creating the current world after previous failed attempts by other gods.”
Ahura Mazda · salience 0.9
“Ahura Mazda — the name means something close to wise lord — is the supreme god of Zoroastrian tradition, the maker of the good creation and the source of light, truth, and order.”
Qat · salience 0.9
“He is a vui — a being of the spirit order rather than a god in a pantheon sense — and he is credited with making the first human beings by carving them from wood and animating them, with obtaining night from a distant source so that the world could have alternation instead of perpetual daylight, and with a range of other establishing acts. His stories are structured by opposition from within the family.”
Feathered Serpent · salience 0.85
“It is often portrayed as a creator deity, responsible for bringing knowledge, arts, and agriculture to humanity.”
Tiamat · salience 0.8
“As the mother of gods and monsters alike, Tiamat symbolizes the dual nature of creation - its ability to nurture and its potential for devastation.”
Bennu · salience 0.7
“According to legend, the Bennu played a crucial role in the creation of the world, with its cry breaking the primordial silence and marking the beginning of time.”
Selu · salience 0.7
“The turning episode has the boys spying on Selu through a gap in the storehouse wall and seeing her stand over a basket, rub or scratch her own body, and produce the corn and beans that feed the household — a sight they read as witchcraft rather than provision.”
Tlatecuhtli · salience 0.7
“The torn being continues to cry out at night, and the gods answer the lament by decreeing that trees, flowers, and grasses will grow from its body to console it, and that it will afterward be given human blood and hearts through sacrifice — the ritual origin the tradition assigns to the earth's ongoing hunger.”
Kutkh
“His powers center on creation and transformation: in some tellings Kutkh forms the Kamchatkan landscape, sets the rivers running and stocks them with fish, and brings fire or daylight to the first people.”
Amen
“With his female counterpart Amunet he was counted among the Eight of Hermopolis, the primeval powers of the world before creation, where the pair personified hidden force; when he became national god, his theologians recast him as the invisible and unknowable power that first set life moving.”
Manama
“Then the world: Manama took two bars of steel and set them criss-cross as a frame, scraped his fingernails, molded the scrapings into a solid mass, and grew it by will power until it became the world.”