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Ahura Mazda is the supreme god of Zoroastrianism, the ancient Iranian religion founded by the prophet Zoroaster, and the divine authority invoked in Achaemenid royal inscriptions from the 6th century BCE.

Amun was a major ancient Egyptian deity who began as a local god of Thebes before rising to become the supreme king of the gods during the New Kingdom. He was associated with the air, wind, and hidden aspects of creation. Eventually, Amun was syncretized with the sun god Ra to form Amun-Ra, a compos...

Kukulkan is the feathered serpent deity of the Yucatec Maya religion, serving as a counterpart to the Aztec god Quetzalcoatl. He was worshipped as the god of storms, wind, and water, as well as a creator deity central to Maya cosmology. The Temple of Kukulkan, known as El Castillo, is a step pyramid...

Marduk was the chief deity of the ancient Mesopotamian city of Babylon, eventually elevated to the head of the Babylonian pantheon. He was a complex god associated with water, vegetation, magic, and justice. In the Babylonian creation epic, the Enuma Elish, Marduk defeats the primordial sea goddess...

Enki is a major deity in ancient Mesopotamian religion, serving as the Sumerian god of water, knowledge, mischief, crafts, and creation. He was closely associated with the Abzu, the freshwater ocean beneath the earth, and his primary cult center was the ancient city of Eridu. Later known as Ea in th...

Nuwa is a primordial mother goddess in ancient Chinese mythology, credited with the creation of mankind and the preservation of the world. According to myth, she fashioned the earliest humans individually from yellow clay before using a cord to splash mud to create the rest of the population. When t...

Izanagi is the primordial male deity in Japanese mythology who, alongside his sister and wife Izanami, is responsible for the creation of the Japanese archipelago. According to Shinto tradition, the couple stirred the primordial ocean with a jeweled spear to form the first islands and gave birth to...

Enlil was a supreme deity in the ancient Mesopotamian pantheon, particularly revered by the Sumerians and later Akkadians as the god of wind, air, and storms. He was considered the king of the gods and the ultimate authority who granted kingship to mortal rulers, governing the fates of humanity thro...

Viracocha was the supreme creator deity of the Inca pantheon, credited with creating the cosmos, the sun, the moon, the stars, the earth, and all living things. In Inca mythology, he emerged from the waters of Lake Titicaca to bring light to a dark world and shaped the first humans from stone before...

Itzamna is the supreme creator deity of the ancient Maya pantheon, frequently recognized as the god of the sky, day, and night. He holds a prominent position in Mesoamerican theology as a benevolent figure who invented writing, the calendar system, and medical knowledge, making him the patron deity...

Izanami is a primordial female deity in Japanese mythology who, alongside her brother and husband Izanagi, was tasked with creating the world. According to the Shinto tradition, she gave birth to the Japanese archipelago and numerous other kami, but suffered a fatal burn while giving birth to the fi...

Obatala is a principal orisha in the Yoruba religion, universally recognized as the deity of purity, peace, and the creator of human bodies. According to traditional Yoruba theology, Obatala was granted authority by the supreme god Olodumare to mold human forms out of clay. Due to this role, followe...

Fuxi is the first of China's Three Sovereigns, a cultural hero deity credited with inventing writing, fishing nets, and the eight trigrams foundational to the I Ching, with traditions over 2,000 years old.

Brahma is a principal deity in Hinduism, serving as the creator god and forming the Trimurti alongside Vishnu and Shiva. He is traditionally depicted with four heads representing the four Vedas, and four arms holding items such as a water pot, a spoon, a rosary, and a book. According to Hindu theolo...

Hunahpu is a central figure in Maya mythology, known alongside his brother Xbalanque as the Hero Twins and the protagonists of the K'iche' Maya sacred text, the Popol Vuh. They are famous for descending into the underworld of Xibalba to avenge their father, ultimately defeating the death gods throug...

Ptah is an ancient Egyptian creator deity and the patron god of artisans, architects, and craftsmen. His primary cult center was the ancient capital city of Memphis, where he was venerated alongside his consort Sekhmet and their son Nefertem. According to Memphite theology, Ptah is a supreme, incorp...

The Rainbow Serpent is a central figure in Aboriginal Australian Dreamtime stories. It represents creation, shaping landscapes like rivers and mountains through its movements. This powerful serpent embodies water’s life-giving force and fertility, holding deep spiritual significance for Indigenous A...

Maui Fishes Up the Islands refers to a family of Polynesian creation traditions in which the demigod Maui uses a magical fishhook to pull land from the ocean. Versions differ across island cultures: Maori traditions associate the episode with Te Ika-a-Maui, New Zealand's North Island, while related...

Hun Hunahpu is the central maize deity in K'iche' Maya mythology, most fully described in the Popol Vuh, the colonial-era sacred book of the K'iche' people. He and his twin brother Vucub Hunahpu were summoned to the underworld of Xibalba, where they were defeated and sacrificed by its lords. Hun Hun...

Khnum is an ancient Egyptian creator god usually depicted with the head of a ram. He was believed to shape human beings and animals on a potter's wheel, breathing life into them before their birth. His association with the potter's wheel also linked him to the source of the Nile River, as he was tho...

"Dirty Hits" is a compilation album by the Scottish rock band Primal Scream, released in 2003. The album surveys the group's output from 1990 to 2003, a period during which they integrated elements of alternative rock, dance, and psychedelic music. It features tracks from their influential album "Sc...

Was Life Created? is a brochure published by Jehovah's Witnesses that argues for a divine origin of life and examines the relationship between evolution, Genesis and scientific evidence. Its official introduction asks whether Earth was designed for life, what can be learned from patterns in nature,...

The Origin of Life - Five Questions Worth Asking is a religious brochure published by Jehovah's Witnesses through the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society. It presents the organization's biblical creationist argument about how life began and discusses questions concerning the complexity, order, and a...