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A recent letter to New Scientist opened: "God is by definition the creator of time and space". I've been thinking about this definition recently; it seems intuitive, but in ancient pantheons, major deities are often not the original creators. Horus is the creator's, what, great-great-grandchild? Inanna literally steals her powers from the other gods, elevating herself to her high status. The Greek gods destroyed or imprisoned their forebears, the Titans. In this thinking, being the first god is not equivalent to being the ultimate god - is that concept another of the Hebrews' many innovations? If you only have one deity, that deity presumably must be the creator (although I'm not clear in my own mind on whether God creates the universe at the beginning of Genesis, or just orders it).