The Creator
deity figure · 3 works · 21 mentions · 64 anchored passages
the Creator · God · God the Creator · the Creator God · the Father · the Creator's · the Creator-god · Ancient of days · God Almighty · God alone
spoken of as
1 expressionPrajāpati“the creator”1 mention
Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa (Sanskrit)
"All the great-souled guardians of the earth look to you as the immortals look to Prajāpati — as the lord of worlds — just as we do.
in the texts
Adversus Marcionem
The one Creator God of the world, whom Marcion acknowledges but subordinates to a second, alien god.
For just as the known Creator-God made him unknown, so the certain God made him uncertain.
Hypocrite, that you may prove yourself a Marcionite by starving — that is, a repudiator of the Creator (for this ought to have been affected among you in place of martyrdom, if the world displeased you) — into whatever matter you may dissolve, you use the substance of the Creator.
For sickening (as many do even now, and especially the heretics) over the question of evil — whence comes evil — and with his senses dulled by the very enormity of his curiosity, finding the Creator declaring, "I am he who creates evils," in proportion as he had already presumed the Creator to be the author of evil, both from this and from other arguments which so persuade every perverse mind, in …
Bṛhaspati Smṛti
A divine/mythic creator figure credited with originating written script to prevent confusion in transactions.
Because confusion arises over time even in matters of debt and the like, the Creator of old created letters, set down on a leaf.
Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa
The creator deity invoked as a simile for the reverence owed to Rāma.
"All the great-souled guardians of the earth look to you as the immortals look to Prajāpati — as the lord of worlds — just as we do.