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|main alias = {{il|[[Allah]]|He Who Creates|The Creator|The Almighty|The Lord|Sir|[[Urizen]]}} | |main alias = {{il|[[Allah]]|He Who Creates|The Creator|The Absolute|The Almighty|The Lord|Sir|[[Urizen]]}} | ||
|species = God | |species = God | ||
|origin = | |origin = | ||
|first mention | |first mention = The Crusade (TV story) | ||
|first | |first = | ||
|only = Power to the People (short story) | |only = Power to the People (short story) | ||
}} | }} | ||
"'''God'''" was | "'''God'''" was a name given to the entity who purportedly created [[N-Space|the universe]] inhabited by [[the Doctor]] and [[human]]ity. God referred to Himself as '''He Who Creates''' or '''the Creator''', and once told [[Peri Brown]] to refer to Him as simply '''Sir'''. He was also known as '''the Almighty''', '''the Lord''', and '''the Absolute'''. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Deadly Reunion (novel)|Deadly Reunion]]'') | ||
While others believed in multiple [[god]]s, some [[religion]]s acknowledged only the singular figure of God. One of them, [[Islam]], referred to its conception as [[Allah]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Escape Room (audio story)|Escape Room]]'') According to some accounts, God as commonly conceived-of was a real being predating the universe, who had even taken an interest in [[the Doctor]] throughout their lives, although from the perspective of his own sphere of existence he was not especially powerful. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Power to the People (short story)|Power to the People]]'') In other accounts, while the specific religious concept of God was fictitious, it disguised a real truth, with "God" or "Allah" appearing in religious texts as a distorted stand-in for the [[Urizen|architect and founder]] of the [[Great House]]s who brought order to the [[Spiral Politic]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Head of State (novel)|Head of State]]'') | While others believed in multiple [[god]]s, some [[religion]]s acknowledged only the singular figure of God. One of them, [[Islam]], referred to its conception as [[Allah]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Escape Room (audio story)|Escape Room]]'') According to some accounts, God as commonly conceived-of was a real being predating the universe, who had even taken an interest in [[the Doctor]] throughout their lives, although from the perspective of his own sphere of existence he was not especially powerful. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Power to the People (short story)|Power to the People]]'') In other accounts, while the specific religious concept of God was fictitious, it disguised a real truth, with "God" or "Allah" appearing in religious texts as a distorted stand-in for the [[Urizen|architect and founder]] of the [[Great House]]s who brought order to the [[Spiral Politic]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Head of State (novel)|Head of State]]'') | ||
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The spare batteries given to the White Guardians were "duds", however, rendering the Doctor's original quest for the Key moot. God was forced to contact him again in his [[Sixth Doctor|sixth incarnation]], during his travles with [[Peri Brown|Peri]], speaking to him directly as a disembodied voice in his TARDIS. He had the Doctor replace the heart himself. In the process, the Doctor realised that the heart was a mundane [[battery]]. Realising that the revelations he had made about the ultimately underwhelming nature and reason for the universe were disturbing to the Doctor and Peri, God then returned them to the TARDIS with no memory of their encounter with God. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Power to the People (short story)|Power to the People]]'') | The spare batteries given to the White Guardians were "duds", however, rendering the Doctor's original quest for the Key moot. God was forced to contact him again in his [[Sixth Doctor|sixth incarnation]], during his travles with [[Peri Brown|Peri]], speaking to him directly as a disembodied voice in his TARDIS. He had the Doctor replace the heart himself. In the process, the Doctor realised that the heart was a mundane [[battery]]. Realising that the revelations he had made about the ultimately underwhelming nature and reason for the universe were disturbing to the Doctor and Peri, God then returned them to the TARDIS with no memory of their encounter with God. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Power to the People (short story)|Power to the People]]'') | ||
=== Relationship to other gods === | |||
[[Zeus]], the most powerful of the [[Immortal]]s, was worshipped mainly in [[Greece]], but knew of an entity, the Absolute, who "held the world in being". Although Zeus never aspired to usurp this entity, his brother [[Hades]] believed that he could challenge the Absolute if he first surpassed Zeus and became the supreme being worshipped by the entire human race. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Deadly Reunion (novel)|Deadly Reunion]]'') | |||
== In culture == | == In culture == | ||
