I understand the quest for a lack of want, but Buddhism is generally viewed as a philosophy rather than a religion. Siddhartha didn’t seem much influenced by the countless gods of Hindus.
He had to embrace a dogma of a higher supernatural power to make his philosophy go, however. So it is yet a religion but not with the kind of god or deity that Westerners generally understand to be one.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahm%C4%81_(Buddhism)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahman
Notice the commonality, though the stories are not the same.