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In Mesopotamian myth, Enlil is the god of the air child of Anki who separates the primordial unity of heaven and earth.
named An (sky) and Ki (earth) respectively. This act of separating An and Ki created the universe
This is Saturn castrating his father Uranus separating Uranus Heaven from his wife Gaia Earth so that he as Saturn may rule.
The offspring of Anki that predate the splitting are called the Anunnaki (also called the Anunna) The Royal Elite.
Born embracing each other, the air god Shu had to forcefully separate his children, the earth god Geb and the sky goddess Nut, to create space for the world and its inhabitants. Their close forbidden relationship continued even after the separation, leading to Geb and Nut having five children Osiris, Isis, Set, Horus, and Nephthys - Heliopolitan Ennead
Of old in the beginning, there was the great chaos, without form and dark. The five elements [planets] had not begun to revolve, nor the sun and moon to shine. You, O Spiritual Sovereign, first divided the grosser parts from the purer. You made heaven. You made earth. You made man. All things with their reproducing power got their being’ -Chinese Book of History (Shu Ching)
"The person, who presided over them, was a woman named OMUROCA; which in the Chaldean language is THALATTH; in Greek THALASSA, the sea; but which might equally be interpreted the Moon. All things being in this situation, Belus came, and cut the woman asunder: and of one half of her he formed the earth, and of the other half the heavens; and at the same time destroyed the animals within her. All this (he says) was an allegorical description of nature." -Berossus around 280bc
The gods, led by Zeus, feared humanity's strength and arrogance after the humans attempted to scale Mount Olympus. Zeus chose to split them, weakening them while also doubling the population to receive more tribute