There was a religious sect around the 3rd century CE that thought this in a literal sense.
That there was an original spontaneously existing man which in turn brought forth the creator of a copy of the earlier universe to which it was effectively God.
(No, this is not Gnosticism, even though it has similar elements and was at a similar time. In that belief system there’s a Monad creator behind everything which created the forms being copied as well as the demiurge.)
God was created by man.
Man made God in his image
Man made dog in his image
man dog
Hey, that’s my cousin Joey Brabanowitz. How do you know Joey?
And often with less effort than some snowmen took
There was a religious sect around the 3rd century CE that thought this in a literal sense.
That there was an original spontaneously existing man which in turn brought forth the creator of a copy of the earlier universe to which it was effectively God.
(No, this is not Gnosticism, even though it has similar elements and was at a similar time. In that belief system there’s a Monad creator behind everything which created the forms being copied as well as the demiurge.)