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* ''Literature/EarthsChildren'': "The Mother's Song", which first appears (in full) in the fifth book, is an epic poem which tells of how the Mother (Earth) was born "out of the darkness, the chaos of time". She uses the dust left over from Her [[note]]capitalised in the original[[/note]] birth to create the moon as a companion for Herself, and later ventures into the void and takes the life-force, causing Her to become pregnant. The next few verses describe how She gives birth to a son ([[{{Pun}} the sun]]) and how this gives rise to the rivers and seas, plants start to grow, mountains are formed, and the stars are created. However, the sun is lured back into the void and, though the Mother tries to get him back, She is unable to do so, even with the moon's help. Instead, they and the void become locked in an endless struggle, in which the sun's light disappears whenever the void is winning, giving rise to night and day. The Mother, unable to accept the loss of Her son, draws on the life-force again and gives birth to all the animals, before giving birth to the first humans.

* ''Literature/EarthsChildren'': "The Mother's Song", which first appears (in full) in the fifth book, is an epic poem which tells of how the Mother (Earth) was born "out of the darkness, the chaos of time". She uses the dust left over from Her [[note]]capitalised in the original[[/note]] birth to create the Moon as a companion for Herself, and later ventures into the void and takes the life-force, causing Her to become pregnant. The next few verses describe how She gives birth to a son ([[{{Pun}} the sun]]) and how this gives rise to the rivers and seas, plants start to grow, mountains are formed, and the stars are created. However, the sun is lured back into the void and, though the Mother tries to get him back, She is unable to do so, even with the moon's help. Instead, they and the void become locked in an endless struggle, in which the sun's light disappears whenever the void is winning, giving rise to night and day. The Mother, unable to accept the loss of Her son, draws on the life-force again and gives birth to all the animals, before giving birth to the first humans.

* ''ComicBook/{{Strontium Dog}}s'' told the Gronks' creation myth while Gronk and Feral were looking for Johnny's corpse. In it, when God created the universe, He at first forgot to give the first gronk a heart. After taking care of the rest of creation, God saw that humanity was pretty much going to wreck the place, and so returned to Blas and gave the gronks four hearts, in order that they would embody love.

* ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'' has two covering different events - the creation of "creation" itself and then then the creation of Mundus, the mortal plane. To note:[[note]]It should be noted that many of the below deities have different names, traits, and motivations depending on the religious tradition. Their most commonly recognized names and stories are used below for the sake of brevity.[[/note]]

Creation myths are often used by modern writers to help give depth to their fictional world or mythologies. {{Mythopoeia}} almost inevitably includes a creation myth.

Compare CreationStory, where characters of the story are involved as creators or witnesses. See also CausedTheBigBang.

* Many in ''Wiki/TheWanderersLibrary''. [[http://wanderers-library.wikidot.com/how-grandmother-triode-stole-binary-from-the-sun How Grandmother Triode Stole Binary from the Sun]] is one told by a computer program.

* As you play through ''VideoGame/TheNeverhood'', you slowly discover that [[spoiler:the world you are exploring was in the process of its own creation myth until [[BigBad Klogg]] stole [[BigGood Hoborg's]] crown, turning him into stone.]]

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->''"And God said, 'Let there be light', and there was light."''
-->-- '''[[Literature/BookOfGenesis Genesis 1:3]]''', ''Literature/TheBible''

* ''Webcomic/{{Unsounded}}'': It's generally agreed that the [[TheMaker Twin Gods]] created and then remade the world. The First World was TheTimeOfMyths, where the Gods embodied their flights of fancy as ageless Senet Beasts to [[MagicalUnderpinningsOfReality drive the forces of nature]] and serve various other purposes. They then refined their designs into the Second World and the BackgroundMagicField underlying it, where mortal life arose through guided evolution.

* ''Literature/RWBYFairyTalesOfRemnant'': ''The Tale of the Two Brothers'' is how Remnant and humanity were created by the Brother Gods, and is explored in the [[WebAnimation/{{RWBY}} main show]] as well. ''The Judgment of Faunus'' and ''The Shallow Sea'' are two stories of how Faunus came to be: one is a god's attempt to solve a war between humans and animals that then creates new problems; one is a god's attempt to find a way to bring certain special humans over to their island sanctuary without humanity's instinct for destruction ruining the haven.

* In ''Fanfic/AncientSins'', we get the story of The Seven Sorcerers, who wielded immensely powerful magics, which embodied aspects of existance, and made the universe. [[spoiler:It's revealed later that they also had to defeat the ''GodOfEvil'', The Nothing/ Tadmir, who is the primordial force of destruction and void.]]

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* In ''Fanfic/AncientSins'', we get the story of The Seven Sorcerers, who wielded immensely powerful magics, which embodied aspects of existance, and made the universe. [[spoiler: It's revealed later that they also had to defeat the ''GodOfEvil'', The Nothing/ Tadmir, who is the primordial force of destruction and void.

** One of these spirits, said to have been "begat" by Padomay, was Lorkhan (aka [[IHaveManyNames Shor, Shezarr, Sep, etc.]]). Depending on the version of the myth, he convinced/tricked some of the other et'Ada into helping him create the mortal plane, known as Mundus. (The races of [[OurElvesAreBetter Mer, or Elves]], who believe they descend from the Aedra, generally believe this was a cruel trick that robbed their ancestors of their pre-creation divinity while the races of Men believe it was a good thing which broke the spirits out of a state of boring pre-creation stasis.) Those et'Ada who sacrificed large parts of their being to create Mundus became known as the Aedra ("Our Ancestors" in the ClassicalTongue of Aldmeris), while those that did not participate became the Daedra ("Not Our Ancestors"). For his treachery, the Aedra [[GodIsDead "killed" Lorkhan]] and tore out his "divine center" (heart), which they cast down into the mortal world he helped to create. (Some tellings, particularly those of Men, state that this was part of Lorkhan's plan all the long, with his spirit then "impregnating" Nirn.)

** The Discworld dwarf version of a CreationMyth is featured in ''Thud!''.

* ''Literature/EnumaElish'' is possibly ''the'' oldest CreationMyth known to science.

-->[[spoiler:"I thought the concept of our universe being [[CreationMyth created]] by a bunch of cantankerous internet {{troll}}s was a funny idea." -- [[WordOfGod Andrew]]]]