In the Roman period c. 46 CE, dedications were made to the deified Livia Augusta ( wife of Augustus ) and to the emperor Claudius.

Others have been where the established order has felt threatened, as shown in the trial of Socrates in 399 BC or where the ruler has been deified, as in Rome, and refusal to offer token sacrifice was similar to refusing to take an oath of allegiance.

Protrepticus ( Exhortation to the Greeks ) ( c. 190 ) IV-" Another new deity was added to the number with great religious pomp in Egypt, and was near being so in Greece by the king of the Romans, who deified Antinous 130CE, whom he loved as Zeus loved Ganymede, and whose beauty was of a very rare order: for lust is not easily restrained, destitute as it is of fear ; and men now observe the sacred nights of Antinous, the shameful character of which the lover who spent them with him knew well.

Sometimes these ghosts would be deified in order to placate their spirits.

Once a person discovers Christ ( through the Orthodox church ), they begin the process of theosis, which is the gradual submission to the Truth ( i. e. God ) in order to be deified ( theosis ).

Other such goddesses include Sothis, the deified form of the star of the same name, and Maat, the personification of cosmic order, who was connected with the Eye because she was said to be the daughter of Ra.

Hatshepsut also traced her lineage to Mut, a primal mother goddess of the Egyptian pantheon, which gave her another ancestor who was a deity as well as her father and grandfathers, pharaohs who would have become deified upon death.

She was deified by Claudius who acknowledged her title of Augusta.

Her name, and the development of her cults, may have been influenced by cult to the deified Sumerian queen Kubaba.

Just like her husband ( who became the god Quirinus ), she was deified after her death as Hora, as recounted in Ovid, Metamorphoses 14. 829 – 851:

She deified herself as Ishtar and her son as Gilgamesh as well as various members of her court and her then deceased husband.

He chooses to feature strongly Hersilia, who was deified for her loyalty to her Roman husband, Romulus, as against her Sabine family-a deliberate reference to Mary, lauded by the Whigs for supporting her Protestant husband, William, against her Catholic father, James.

Like her sister Domna before her, she was deified.

Now, on her toes, the deified ballerina ( embodied in this period by the legendary ballerina Marie Taglioni ) seemed to magically skim the surface of the stage, an ethereal being never quite touching the ground.

She was deified: her statue was placed in the Temple of Venus in Rome and a temple was dedicated to her in her honor.

Ahmose-Nefertari was deified after her death.

Julia was deified and her ashes were later mixed and smoked with Domitian's by an old nurse secretly in the Temple of the Flavians.

In 119 Matidia died, whereupon the Roman Emperor Hadrian delivered her funeral oration, deified her and granted her a temple and altar in Rome itself.

Multiple stories exist as to why Clarence and the NOI parted ways: some have him refusing to give up gambling ; others have him questioning the unique divinity of Wallace Fard Muhammad, whom the NOI deified as the True and Living God in person ; or questioning his position as God due to the belief that Fard was born of a Caucasian mother.

It is widely accepted by present-day historians that at the time of Dangun's reign, his status was deified by placing him in the position of the Grandson of Heaven, and thus, strengthened Dangun's position as the head of a confederacy.

His body was placed in Hadrian's mausoleum, a column was dedicated to him on the Campus Martius, and the temple he had built in the Forum in 141 to his deified wife Faustina was rededicated to the deified Faustina and the deified Antoninus.

Before the end of the year, he nominated his young son Caesar and heir, his wife, Otacilia Severa, was named Augusta, and he also deified his father Marinus, even though he had never been Emperor.

, located in Shibuya, Tokyo, is the Shinto shrine that is dedicated to the deified spirits of Emperor Meiji and his wife, Empress Shōken.

This shrine was originally built in 1063 as a branch of Iwashimizu Shrine in Zaimokuza where tiny Moto Hachiman now stands and dedicated to the Emperor Ōjin, ( deified with the name Hachiman, tutelary kami of warriors ), his mother Empress Jingu and his wife Hime-gami.

It could include gods adopted from foreign cultures, and sometimes even humans: deceased pharaohs were believed to be divine, and occasionally, distinguished commoners such as Imhotep also became deified.

Huang ( 皇 ) was the title generally used for divine entities and legendary / deified rulers, and Di ( 帝 ) was used for feudal rulers of vassals who were themselves rulers of their own principalities.

Though these words came to be used synonymously and interchangeably, at the time of Ying Zheng's rule, they were not used together, and would have carried the connotation of " The Holy Emperor " because Huang ( 皇 ) was previously associated with divine or deified entities.

Several other sources, he notes, say that the novensiles are people ( homines ) who have become divus, " divine " or " deified '; among these divi are Hercules, Romulus, Aesculapius, Liber, and Aeneas.

In Irish and Scottish mythology, the (, Irish plural, Scottish Gaelic plural ), also known as the Cailleach Bheur, is a divine hag, a creatrix, and possibly an ancestral deity or deified ancestor.

Located further east, and near to the great colossus of Rameses, this small temple is attributed to the 19th dynasty, and seems to have been dedicated to Ptah and his divine consort Sekhmet, as well as deified Rameses II.

Traditional Roman religion distinguished between a deus ( god ) and a divus ( a mortal who became divine or deified ), though not consistently.

It would appear also that the rulers were always singled out for divine grace, and in the earlier periods of the history, owing to the prevailing view that the rulers stood nearer to the Gods than other mortals, the kings were deified after death, and in some instances divine honours were paid to them even during their lifetime.

Roman Emperor Augustus referred to his relation to the deified adoptive father, Julius Caesar as " son of a god " via the term divi filius which was later also used by Domitian and is distinct from the use of Son of God in the New Testament.

Augustus died in AD 14, being deified by the senate shortly afterwards.

), a Perseus, a satyr — Marsyas — admiring the flute and Minerva ( Athena ), a Hercules, which was taken to the shrine dedicated by Pompey the Great at the Circus Maximus, Discobolus ( the discus thrower ), and an Apollo for Ephesus, " which Antony the triumvir took from the Ephesians, but the deified Augustus restored it again after being warned in a dream ".

" In this verse, Vergil makes a clear reference to the offspring of Iulus, from whom Augustus Caesar claimed descent Therefore, in this verse Vergil refers to the Gens Julia, the family of Augustus and Julius Caesar, who was deified after his death.

* Caesarion was proclaimed as the son of the deified Julius Caesar ( son of god ), King of Kings and King of Egypt ; Caesarion was declared legitimate heir of Julius Caesar, although Caesar himself had adopted Augustus in his will and left him majority of his fortune.

" For the Emperor Caesar Traianus Hadrianus Augustus, grandson of the deified Nerva, son of the deified Traianus, Pontifex Maximus, Tribunus for the 13th time, Consul for the 3rd time, Pater Patriae ( Father of the land ) and for Sabina Augusta .... the colony.

Since most emperors from Augustus on were deified, some images are somewhat idealized.

In AD 15, statues to the deified Augustus were erected, dedicated by C. Norbanus Flaccus.

After the death of Augustus in the year of 14 D. C., the emperor was officially deified and in 15 D. C. was erected a temple to bless him, probably in the eastern neighborhood or near the forum of the colony, as mentioned by Tacitus in his annales.

It was begun by Augustus in 42 BC after the senate deified Julius Caesar posthumously.

The Temple of Caesar was the only temple to be entirely dedicated to the cult of a comet ( referred to as a ' comet star ') The comet, upon its appearance some time after Caesar's murder ( 44 BC ), was considered to be the soul of the deified Julius Caesar and the symbol of the " new birth " of Augustus as the unique Roman ruler and Emperor.

After the public speech Augustus wanted a few series of coins devoted to the comet star and to the deified Caesar (" Divus Iulius ") to be struck and widely distributed.

The temple therefore ended up to represent both Julius Caesar as a deified being and Augustus himself as the newborn under the comet and the comet star itself was object of public worship.

Sodalilates were instituted for the cult of the deified emperors such as Augustus ( see Augustales ) and Claudius.