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The Creator deity usually leaves it in the hands of [[Celestial Paragons and Archangels]] to finish the job.
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== Anime ==
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* In [[Lord Dunsany|Lord Dunsany's]] ''[[The Gods of Pegana]],'' creation works this way, more or less. MANA-YOOD-SUSHAI created the 'little gods' and a bit of space for them to work with, then took a long long nap while they created the Worlds.
* In ''[[The Belgariad]]'', UL created the universe and then seven other gods, his sons, to make the actual world they would inhabit, while he basically sat around and grumbled at how poor a job they were doing.
* ''[[Keys to The Kingdom]]'' falls into this indirectly. "The Architect" created the universe, [[Have You Seen My God?|then went off somewhere--nobody knows where]]. Her instructions were to appoint a mortal as her heir, but the seven greatest ([[Seven Deadly Sins|and most corrupt]]) members of the [[Celestial Bureaucracy]] took power for themselves and have been having one ''hell'' of a time.
* In Voltaire's short story ''[http://wondersmith.com/scifi/plato.htm Plato's Dream]'', the chief creator Demiurgos makes a number of lesser superbeings and then assigns each of them to create one of the planets in the solar system.
* Orr from David Weber's [[Bahzell]] series created the universe and then a whole pantheon of lesser gods and goddesses to help run it, though there exceptions. The realm of demons and devils where Shigu, the wife of Phorbros after he rebelled, came from seems to be separate from but connected to Orr's creation and ''no one'' knows where Hirahim Lightfoot, the resident trickster deity, came from even if his does acknowledge Orr's authority.
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* According to the mythology in ''[[Pokémon Diamond and Pearl (Video Game)|Pokémon Diamond and Pearl]]'', after the original Pokemon Arceus created the universe, he created Dialga, Palkia and Giratina (representing time, space and anti-matter), followed by Uxie, Mesprit and Azelf (knowledge, emotion and willpower). After that, he went into a deep sleep, and the others took care of everything.
** At least until he got woken up again by a bunch of ten-year-olds with an Azure Flute.
*** [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|And then put in a Master Ball.]]
*** [[Olympus Mons|And forced to carry out said ten year old's biddings.]]
* ''[[The Legend of Zelda (Franchise)|The Legend of Zelda]]'' has Din, Nayru and Farore, "The Golden Goddesses" who left the world some time after creating it. Other beings of varying degree of power are commonly described as gods through the series, generally as implicitly or explicitly having been put there by the Golden Goddesses to maintain and protect in their absence. The threat level of Hyrule generally leaves them the divine equivalent of a [[Badly
** [[The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword (Video Game)|The Legend of Zelda Skyward Sword]] has the goddess Hylia, implicitly the highest ranked of the delegate divinities, who {{spoiler|incarnates as the mortal Zelda, leaving her power and soul within that bloodline}}. Below her, the surface is protected by a trio of dragons: Faron the Water Dragon that guards the Woods, Lanayru the Thunder Dragon who oversees the Desert and Eldin the Fire Dragon who watches over the Volcano, while the skies are protected by the whale-like deity Levias.
** [[The Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess (Video Game)|The Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess]] has the light spirits Ordona, Faron, Lanaryu, and Eldin, each tasked with keeping one province of Hyrule protected from magical darkness and the like.
** ''[[The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time (Video Game)|The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time]]'' has the Deku Tree as a godlike figure for the Kokiri and Jabu-Jabu as a godlike figure for the Zora.
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