Creator Deity - Polytheism

Polytheism

In polytheistic creation, the world often comes into being organically, e.g. sprouting from a primal seed, sexually, by miraculous birth (sometimes by parthenogenesis), by hieros gamos, violently, by the slaying of a primeval monster, or artificially, by a divine demiurge or "craftsman". Sometimes, a god is involved, wittingly or unwittingly, in bringing about creation. Examples include:

• African contexts:
  • Mbombo of Bakuba mythology, who vomited out the world upon feeling a stomach ache
  • Egyptian mythology
    • Atum in Ennead, whose semen becomes the primal components of the universe
    • Ptah creating the universe by speaking
  • Unkulunkulu in Zulu mythology
• American contexts:
  • Nanabozho (Great Rabbit), Ojibway deity, a shape-shifter and a cocreator of the world
  • The goddess Coatlicue in Aztec mythology
  • Viracocha in Inca mythology
  • A trickster deity in the form of a Raven in Inuit mythology
• Asian contexts:
  • El or the Elohim of Canaanite religion
  • Esege Malan in Mongolian mythology, king of the skies
  • Kamuy in Ainu mythology, who built the world on the back of a trout
  • Izanagi and Izanami-no-Mikoto in Japanese mythology, who churned the ocean with a spear, creating the islands of Japan
  • Marduk killing Tiamat in the Babylonian Enûma Eliš
  • Vishvakarman in Vedic mythology, responsible for the creation of the universe (while in later Puranic period, Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva are for creation, maintenance and destruction, respectively)
• European contexts:
  • The sons of Borr slaying the primeval giant Ymir in Norse mythology
  • Rod in Slavic mythology
  • Ipmil or Radien-Attje (Radien Father) in Sami mythology
• Oceanic contexts:
  • Ranginui, the Sky Father, and Papatuanuku, the Earth Mother in Māori mythology