DEMIURGE  

DEMIURGE  (literally “creating  for  people”) is a mythological character that creates elements of the world, space and cultural objects, people like a craftsman (a blacksmith, potter, weaver, carpenter etc.). E.g., Egyptian God Khnum creates the world and people with his potter wheel, Finish God Ilmarinen forges the Sun, the Moon etc. In the mythology of other peoples D. merges with the image of a God­creator or is an assistant of the Supreme God. D. can be compared with a cultural hero that mostly connects with certain objects that have already existed but have been hidden etc. The functions of D. are performed by a totemic, zoomorphous and later anthropomorphous first ancestor in archaic mythologies.

F.A. Nadrshina