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- Creator's descendants. (Cf. A32.) A7
- Creator's companions. A30
- Creator's grandmother. Casually mentioned in the course of the creation myth. A31
- Creator's family. (Cf. A7.) A32
- Creator's son. A32.1
- Creator's daughter. A32.2
- Creator's wife. A32.3
- Creator's wife seduced by his son. A32.3.1
- Animal as creator's companion. A33
- Beast as creator's companion. A33.1
- Creator's dog. The creator is accompanied by a dog. (Cf. A63.4.) A33.1.1
- Bird as creator's companion. A33.2
- Insect as creator's companion. A33.3
- Armadillo as creator's companion. A33.4.1
- Creator's companions: unicorn, phoenix, tortoise, and dragon. A36
- Heavenly bodies as creator's companions. A38
- Creator's companions: sun and moon. A38.1
- Creator's advisers. A40
- Seraphim as creator's advisers. A42.1
- Souls of pious as Creator's advisers. A45
- Creator's death. (Cf. A192.) A76
- Creator's works survive him. A77
- Gods born from various parts of creator's body. A112.3
- Culture hero creator's son. A512.2
- Creation: materialization of creator's thinking. Creator "thinks outward in space" and thus produces the universe. A612
- Creation from creator's tears. A613
- Universe from parts of creator's body. Ymir makes the world from his members – mountains from bones, cliffs from teeth, heavens from skull, etc. A614
- Universe from creator's masturbation with water, with stone, and with earth. (Cf. A1216.1). A615.1
- Pre-existing world of gods above. Such a world is assumed before the real creation of the universe. Though this belief is not explicitly set forth in many mythologies, it seems to be implied in most of the North American Indian systems. See, for example, motif A31, Creator's grandmother. A631
- Sun and moon as spangle which falls from creator's forehead into his own urine. A714.6
- Hero makes sun and moon from tree and vivifies them with blood of creator's son. A717.1
- Earth from creator's spittle falling on primeval water. A814.10
- Earth from worm scratched by creator's nails. A828
- Creation because of creator's lonesomeness. Dissatisfied at being alone in center of primeval water, God creates the earth. A832
- Earth from creator's cuticle. (Cf. A1211.5.) A833
- Creator's giant servant puts a valley where earth's crust is heavy and a mountain where it is light so as to stabilize it. A857.2
- Creator's giant servant puts trees to hold earth together where it slipped. A857.3
- Ocean from creator's sweat. A923
- Creator's (deity's) voice makes thunder. A1142.1
- Opening of creator's eyes creates day. (Cf. A0.) A1171.1
- Man made from creator's body. A1211
- Man from dirt mixed with creator's blood. A1211.1
- Man made from creator's eye. A1211.4
- Man made from dirt rubbed from creator's (hero's) body. (Cf. A833). A1211.5
- First man the result of maid having licked semen-stained loin cloth of creator's teacher. A1211.7
- Man created in creator's image. A1212
- Origin of death from bad creator's unsuccessful imitation. The bad creator attempts in vain to endow his creations with life like the good creator. Fails and thus introduces death. A1335.2
- Giant as Creator's servant. F531.0.2