demiurge

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In West Australia this bird is the demiurge, and the progenitors of the phratries, of which crow is one, are his nephews.

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  1. noun A powerful creative force or personality.
  2. noun A public magistrate in some ancient Greek states.
  3. noun A deity in Gnosticism, Manichaeism, and other religions who creates the material world and is often viewed as the originator of evil.

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  • Protagoras, the Titan-demiurge, on drawing humanity from the clay, teaches men tongues, techniques, and customs. —  The Brussels Journal - The Voice of Conservatism in Europe
  • From Tronti came the conviction that the working class, far from having to endure successive economic transformations at the hands of capital, was their demiurge, imposing on employers and the state the structural changes of each phase of accumulation. —  London Review of Books
  • I agree with demiurge that the Professor Layton game isn't exactly an adventure game in the classical sense, and I think the adventure game genre is inherently less accessible than other types of games. —  Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz
  • Until then he had not been supposed to have any wife, and he also might have himself brought his own progeny into being; but lest a power of spontaneous generation equal to that of the demiurge should be ascribed to him, he was married, and the wife found for him was Tafnűît, his twin sister, born in the same way as he was born. —  History Of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 1 (of 12)
  • Some of them retained the Heliopolitan demiurge, and hastened to associate him with their own; others completely eliminated him in favour of the feudal divinity,--Amon at Thebes, Thot at Hermopolis, Phtah at Memphis,--keeping the rest of the dynasty absolutely unchanged. —  History Of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 1 (of 12)
 

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  1. Late Latin dēmiurgus, from Greek dēmiourgos, artisan : dēmios, public (from dēmos, people; see dā- in Indo-European roots) + ergos, worker (from ergon, work; see werg- in Indo-European roots).

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  1. from Latin demiurgus, from (Greek δημιουργός, contr. of earlier (Epic) δημιοεργός, literally a worker for the people, a handicraftsman, a skilled workman, a maker, an architect, the Maker of the world, the Creator (see def.), from δήμιος, of the people (from δήμος, the people), + *ἒργειν, work, ἒργον, a work, = English work.
 

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