'Create' was originally agricultural — Latin 'creare' meant 'to cause to grow' before theology elevated it.
To bring something into existence; to produce through imaginative skill or effort.
From Latin 'creātus,' past participle of 'creāre' meaning 'to make, bring forth, produce, beget,' from PIE root *kerh₂- (to grow, cause to grow). The Latin word was originally an agricultural term — to cause something to grow, to bring forth from the earth — before it was adopted into Roman religious and philosophical language for divine production. Christianity elevated 'creāre' to describe God's act of bringing the universe into existence from nothing (creatio ex nihilo), and it entered English through this theological channel.
The word 'create' shares its root with 'cereal' and the Roman goddess Ceres — all from PIE *kerh₂- (to grow). 'Create' originally meant 'to cause to grow,' and Ceres was the goddess who made grain grow. So 'creation' and your breakfast cereal are, etymologically, both about growth from the earth.