How would you describe the beliefs that ancients societies held about the creation of the world?

Ancient civilizations often credited the creation of the world to other worldly - or as we'd think of them today "supernatural" - beings who they personified as being decidedly human.  The ancients did not tend to have the sort of scientific, logical, evidence-based understanding of the workings of the world that we have now.  Instead, the credited the creation of the world to beings who they imagined as being human, in a sense, but also far more powerful and mystical.