demiurgic

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Adam, perhaps the novel’s only personable creation, is a kind of demiurgic naïf, somewhere between a wide-eyed ingénue and an Enlightenment philosophe.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 15, 2019

According to Tolkien scholar John Garth, the story helps to establish “parameters of Tolkien’s world, enshrining aspects of good and evil in faery races and demiurgic beings who are locked in perpetual conflict.”

From The Verge • Aug. 1, 2018

In the cosmogonical myths of the Muyscas this was the home or source of Light, and was a name applied to the demiurgic force.

From American Hero-Myths A Study in the Native Religions of the Western Continent by Brinton, Daniel Garrison

Ptah, the Hephaestus of the Greeks, a demiurgic and creative god, special patron of hand-workers and artisans.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" by Various

And again in the Gorgias, he relates the fable concerning the three fabricators, and their demiurgic allotment.

From Introduction to the Philosophy and Writings of Plato by Taylor, Thomas