For the Pagans: What God or Goddess is responsible for creation, according to your beliefs?

Answer 1

cnjard, perhaps you are the one in need of a dictionary. We Pagans are a very spiritual people, and we believe in many Gods and Goddesses. Paganism isn't a lack of religion, just a different religion than you are used to.

But in answer to your question, it varies from person to person, and from tradition to tradition. Most of us tend to accept modern scientific theories about the origins of the Universe, but incorporate our individual ideas of Deity into it. Some believe the Universe was born from the womb of the Great Mother. Some believe the Universe is itself Divine, and is self-created. And some of us refer back to a particular mythology from the culture of our choice. These myths are seen as being allegorical, and not literal histories, the way some Christians view the Biblical creation myth.

Answer 2

Heathenism

Creation of everything was described as being a cauldron/chasm of chaos until light brought about life onto the realm of the gods. From the ice the gods and goddesses were revealed. They killed the proto-giant Ymir and created the realms with his body - his skull cap the sky (which they knew surrounded a round earth), his blood turned to the rivers and oceans, etc. The other realms came out of the chaos and Ymir's body.

Humans were created by Odin, Ve, and Vili (brother deities) who took an ash and an elm and breathed life, mind and souls into them and created humankind.

Do I believe the creation myth? I'm pretty agnostic about it. I think it fits the Big Bang closer than mankind being created out of dust..........

Answer 3

Everything is Metaphor... at least to some of us. If it's not pure metaphor then it is at least allegory. Some of us follow the Egyptian Pantheon and believe that We spurted from Ra's loins. (Traditional Egyptian myth) Others believe We cmae out of the celestial ice. (Norse) Others still believe the Great Goddess gave birth to the Universe. (Wicca) STill others believe the Universe is around because the God and Goddess reproduced creating the Universe. (like Yin and Yang) It doesn't really matter, because these are just ways to view what is pretty tough to understand. And it's more artistic than many ways.

Answer 4

Technically I am a Hard Agnostic. I do not think that anyone really knows "the Whole Truth" about Creation and I do not think we ever will.

Many creation myth stories seem to surround the idea of chaos being first, which congealed into two proto-parents, and that they gave birth to the first beings. At that level, there does not seem to be a difference between metaphor and science.

Answer 5

I am not aware of a distinctly Wiccan creation myth, and I personally believe that because the physical and spirutal worlds are so closely related that the gods and the universe were created at the same time. I follow scientific explanations of creation.

Answer 6

All had a hand in it, but I also believe in the Big Bang theory. I just believe that the gods have helped things along. The gods are the universe and all of nature and are too complex for us to understand their ways.

Answer 7

I'm a naturalistic pantheist. We don't believe in an anthropomorphic God or Goddess that "created" the universe. The universe just is.

Check these out:

http://www.pantheism.net (World Pantheist Movement)
http://www.pantheist.net (Universal Pantheist Society)

Answer 8

I'm Wiccan, and I think the story of creation is The One created everything; The One is everything and everything is The One.

However, I realize that this is not likely fact, but I still appreciate it from the perspective of participating in the religion.

Answer 9

I'm of Celtic origin and we don't have a creation myth.. the celts have always been interested in what's going on now more than anything.

Answer 10

If you knew the definition of a pagan, you would know that pagans don't believe in a god, and are not religeous.