Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-8248675-20130629212310/@comment-25109952-20130820133145

Belief does not form gods, Except in real life   where gods are real because people say so. (No offense theists.) Auriel/Auri-el is the Elven version of Akatosh, and probably more accurate. I personally think it went like this.

Bethesda makes All-Maker

All-Maker makes Anu and Padomay

Anu and Padomay fight, blood forms Aedra (Mixed Blood) and Daedra (Padomays pure blood.)

Akatosh emerges first, as Time. Then the Daedra and finally, the Aedra. Aedra and Daedra did not truly exist though, there were only et' Ada.

Lorkhan tricks some of the et' Ada, creating the Aedra. Those who saw through Lorkhan's trick became the Daedra.

World is created, Lorkhan "dies" at Auri-el's hand.

Some Aedra go down to Nirn to create the Ehlnofey, the ancestors of all races save Argonians, who descend from the Hist. (There were thousands of Aedra, Greater (Nine divines) and lesser. Greater are the Daedric Princes counterparts, Lesser are the Lesser Daedra's counterparts.)

At this point, you should know the rest.