 The stories about Brahma in various Puranas are diverse and inconsistent.In Skanda Purana, for example, goddess Parvati is called the "mother of the universe", and she is credited with creating Brahma, gods, and the three worlds.She is the one, states Skanda Purana, who combined the three "Gunas" - Sattva, Rajas, and Tamas - into matter ("Prakrti") to create the empirically observed world.