Babylonians. Bel or Merodach forms Heaven and earth from the two halves of the body of Tiawath.
Persians. Ormuzd (Ahura Mazda), father and creator.
Greeks. Uranus (Heaven-Father) and Gæa (Earth-Mother) beget all things.
Teutons (Scandinavia). Ginnungagap, the gulf existent. World made from body of the giant Ymir.
Finns (Kalevala epic). Eagle hatches the land.
Hindus. Brahma, in his avatar as the boar, raised the earth on his tusks from out the waters and then began his work of creating.
Japanese. Izanagi and Izanami (creative pair).
Bushmen. Cagn (the praying mantis) created the world.
Zulus. Unkulunkulu (the great ancestor-creator).