<Ul> <Li> Creation ex nihilo in which the creation is through the thought, word, dream or bodily secretions of a divine being . </Li> <Li> Earth diver creation in which a diver, usually a bird or amphibian sent by a creator, plunges to the seabed through a primordial ocean to bring up sand or mud which develops into a terrestrial world . </Li> <Li> Emergence myths in which progenitors pass through a series of worlds and metamorphoses until reaching the present world . </Li> <Li> Creation by the dismemberment of a primordial being . </Li> <Li> Creation by the splitting or ordering of a primordial unity such as the cracking of a cosmic egg or a bringing order from chaos . </Li> </Ul> <Li> Creation ex nihilo in which the creation is through the thought, word, dream or bodily secretions of a divine being . </Li> <Li> Earth diver creation in which a diver, usually a bird or amphibian sent by a creator, plunges to the seabed through a primordial ocean to bring up sand or mud which develops into a terrestrial world . </Li> <Li> Emergence myths in which progenitors pass through a series of worlds and metamorphoses until reaching the present world . </Li>

Refers to the original act of creation work of the god or the gods