begetter

One form of the legend makes Tammuz the begetter of autumn vegetation.

Is happiness courted in vain A certain begetter of pain—A fruit with an asp at the core?

Regarded as the unbegotten begetter of the first beginning, he succeeded in achieving the incomprehensible.

To assign such significance to the word 'begetter' was entirely in Thorpe's vein.

If so, the mental impulse of love, and even its lower form of animal passion, is the begetter of the human race.