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A creator deity or creator god (often called the Creator) is a deity or god responsible for the creation of the Earth, world, (cosmos or universe). 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.〔(2004) Sacred Books of the Hindus Volume 22 Part 2: Pt. 2, p. 67, R.B. Vidyarnava, Rai Bahadur Srisa Chandra Vidyarnava〕 ==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 the Word * * Unkulunkulu in Zulu mythology * American contexts: * * Nanabozho (Great Rabbit), Ojibway deity, a shape-shifter and a cocreator of the world〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Great Hare )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Nanabozho, Access geneaology )〕 * *Coatlicue in Aztec mythology * * Viracocha in Inca mythology * * A trickster deity in the form of a Raven in Inuit mythology * Asian contexts: * * El in 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). The Nasadiya Sukta of the Rig Veda is agnostic about the existence of an omniscient deity but refers to the birth of the universe from a primal seed (retah). * 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 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Creator deity」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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