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Since this is a very common trope in ancient mythologies, it is [[Older Than Dirt]].

 

Compare [[Creation Story]], where characters of the story are involved as creators or witnesses.

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* The Land from the ''[[Chronicles of Thomas Covenant]]''.

* [[Narnia]] in ''The Magician's Nephew''. It's one example of the characters not being told about creation of Narnia but rather witnessing the act of it.

* ''[[Watership Down]]'' features a ''rabbit'' creation myth. The sun-god, Frith, originally created all animals as equals, but when the children of El-hrairah, the First Rabbit and a popular [[Folk Hero]], began eating everything, he differentiated them, including blessing El-hrairah's bottom with quick feet and a cotton tail to warn for danger.

* The [[Discworld]] in ''<s> Faust</s> Eric''.

** The first ''Science of Discworld'' is, in part, a comedy version of our own universe's origin-story. The wizards compare the progression of events in Roundworld to several Disc creation myths, mostly while grousing that our world is doing it all wrong.

* Olaf Stapledon's ''The Star Maker'' provides a rare sci-fi version.

* The world is created in the first poem of [[The Kalevala]]. Later poems tell about the birth of iron and beer.

* In the [[Star Trek Novel Verse]], an Andorian creation myth referencing the sundering of their race into four genders is essential to the in-depth exploration of their culture. According to the myth, their race was split into four sexes to demonstate their lack of self-knowledge; they were missing a vital aspect of self-awareness that prevented them being Whole. To unite the four genders is to take a step towards reclaiming spiritual perfection - though the "missing piece" is also needed if Andorians are to truly grow as a people. See in particular the [[Star Trek Deep Space Nine Relaunch]].

 

 

* ''[[Fire Emblem]]: Radiant Dawn'' has one of these involving a Goddess of Order and a Goddess of Chaos. However, the majority of the story was mixed up to the point where everyone believed the opposite of what was actually true.

* [[The Elder Scrolls]] has one, the "Convention", where several gods were brought together by one in particular who wanted to try something different. Depending on a mortal's opinion on this one particular god, he is either Lorkhan, the Doom Drum, who tricked the other gods into weakening or sacrificing themselves to create the Mundus (world of mortals), and was punished with his own death and binding to the world, or he is Shor/Shezarr, someone who wished to break everyone out out of the boring pre-creation state by taking a necessary but arduous interim step in creating mortality and was killed for it (and planned for this, with his failure being a cautionary tale of what ''not'' to do to achieve his goal). Elven religions tend to be more of the former, while religions of the races of men tend to be more the latter.

* Successful completion of the Sand People sidequest and Krayt hunt in [[Knights of the Old Republic]] concludes with the Sand People telling you their creation myth. {{spoiler|They were once a technologically advanced race who were enslaved by the Rakata. When the Infinite Empire was hit with a plague, the slaves revolted, and hid underground when the Rakata bombed the planet's surface to glass. The story also implies that the Sand People may be the ancestors of, or at least related to, the Star Wars universe humans.}} Be careful, though, as questioning too many aspects of the myth will cause all the tribe to turn hostile.

* As the player progresses through ''[[Super Mario Galaxy]]'' he unlocks chapters in Rosalina's Storybook, the tale of a girl and her Luma as they travel the cosmos in search of their respective mothers. It becomes clear very soon that the tale is autobiographical: the girl in the book is Rosalina's younger self, and the story tells how she came to leave her homeworld and become the immortal overseer of the Comet Observatory. She may not have ''created'' the universe, but she's essential in maintaining its cycle of death and rebirth.

 

* ''[[MS Paint Adventures]]'', in its [[Serial Escalation|constant pursuit of epicness]], has explored this trope.

 

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