According to myth, Imhotep's mother was a mortal named Kheredu-ankh, elevated later to semi-divine status by claims that she was the daughter of Banebdjedet.

Their mother was Leda, but Castor was the mortal son of Tyndareus, king of Sparta, and Pollux the divine son of Zeus, who visited Leda in the guise of a swan.

Semele (;, Semelē ), in Greek mythology, daughter of the Boeotian hero Cadmus and Harmonia, was the mortal mother of Dionysus by Zeus in one of his many origin myths.

The goddess Atargatis, mother of Assyrian queen Semiramis, loved a mortal shepherd and unintentionally killed him.

In her mortal self, Ino, the second wife of the Minyan king Athamas, the mother of Learches and Melicertes, daughter of Cadmus and Harmonia and stepmother of Phrixus and Helle, was one of the three sisters of Semele, the mortal woman of the house of Cadmus who gave birth to Dionysus.

Indeed, logically, since the children fathered by gods on various daughters of either Boeotian or Phliasian Asopus were mortal in these tales, then the daughters themselves must have been mortal, and therefore either the mother of these daughters ( often given as Metope daughter of river Ladon ) or their father Asopus must have been mortal, or both of them.

This was also the name of the mortal mother of Linus by Apollo.

No mortal man, except Achilles, can control or drive them, for an immortal mother gave him birth.

The Gens Julia, or the Julians, the clan to which Julius Caesar belonged, claimed to have been descended from Ascanius / Iulus, his father Aeneas, and, ultimately, the goddess Venus, the mother of Aeneas in myth, his father being the mortal Anchises.

The mother of Pirithous, the Lapith king in the generation before the Trojan War, was Dia, daughter of Eioneus or Deioneus ; Ixion was the father of Pirithous, but like many heroic figures, Pirithous had an immortal as well as a mortal father.

Deichtine is the mother of Cú Chulainn, by either her mortal husband Sualtam or the god Lugh.

According to one version of Creation as embodied in the Indian Rigveda ( RV ), mortal life emerged from the procreation by Dyauṣ Pitā, whereby the mother Earth, goddess Prithivi was impregnated by the Dyauṣ Pitṛ by way of rains.

Frederick's and Conradin's mortal remains were at first hastily buried, but later transferred to the church of Santa Maria del Carmine, at the behest of Conradin's mother Elisabeth of Wittelsbach.

Several years later, after becoming a mother herself, Lewis finally confronted her mother, who finally admitted the truth, stating that Judy was " a walking mortal sin ".

" It represents Eliza and Brandon, the two of them, and how the tragedy of his death separated their mortal life together ", said his mother, Linda Lee Cadwell, who described her son, like his father before him, as a poetic, romantic person.

But the Goddess of Heaven ( or in some versions, Zhinü's mother ) found out that Zhinü, a fairy girl, had married a mere mortal.

Phaeton seeks assurance that his mother, Clymenē, is telling the truth that his father is the sun god Helios ( as her husband is Merops, a mortal king ).

In Greek mythology, Elara was a mortal Princess, the daughter of King Orchomenus and mother of giant Tityos.

Her mother had contracted the mortal virus during a transfusion, and she died in 1992.

Pausanias quotes a Sidonian as saying that the Phoenicians claim Apollo as the father of Asclepius, as do the Greeks, but unlike them do not make his mother a mortal woman.

In Greek mythology, he is presented as a son of Zeus and the mortal Semele, thus semi-divine or heroic: and as son of Zeus and Persephone or Demeter, thus both fully divine, part-chthonic and possibly identical with Iacchus of the Eleusinian Mysteries.

Nonnus does not present the conception as virginal ; rather, the editor's notes say that Zeus swallowed Zagreus ' heart, and visited the mortal woman Semele, whom he seduced and made pregnant.

Zeus implanted the still-beating heart into the mortal woman Semele, from whom the child was eventually born again, despite Hera's intervention.

Peter Paul Rubens ' Death of Semele, caused by the theophany of Zeus without a mortal disguise

The appearance of Zeus to Semele, is more than a mortal can stand and she is burned to death by the flames of His power.

There are two Orphic stories of the rebirth of Dionysus, in one of which it is the heart of Dionysus that is implanted into the thigh of Zeus ; the other where he has impregnated the mortal woman Semele resulting in Dionysus's literal rebirth.

A proposed resolution of these conflicting versions involves considering an early Lysias, Elishah ( maybe the founder of Portalegre in 1900 BC ) and Lusus ( having as mortal father king Siceleo of Iberia, grandson of Atlante / Atlas, founder of Atlantis, to be a possible descendant of Elishah, and possibly having Bacchus as his real and divine father ) as coming in between this and another Lysias son of Bacchus ( who in this version is clearly the son of Semele who conquered Iberia, not the son of Jupiter and Io who conquered India or the son of Jupiter and Proserpina who was an agrarian and herding culture hero ), who was of a different cast but with the similarity of name to the above claimed be their reincarnation and became the new separate king of the Lusitanians since Lusus.

I know that I myself felt that it was a mortal shame for a man to be torn open by a British musket ball, as Isaac had been, yet I also felt relieved and lucky that it had been him and not myself.

for he was created not exactly immortal, nor yet exactly mortal, but capable of immortality as well as of mortality.

The mortal turned out to be a beautiful young woman, Amethystos, who was on her way to pay tribute to Artemis.

This Aeolus was perceived by post-Homeric authors as a god, rather than as a mortal and simple Keeper of the Winds ( as in the Odyssey ).

This dual personality of the unseen and the seen, the spiritual and material, the eternal Christ and the corporeal Jesus manifest in flesh, continued until the Master's ascension, when the human, material concept, or Jesus, disappeared, while the spiritual self, or Christ, continues to exist in the eternal order of divine Science, taking away the sins of the world, as the Christ has always done, even before the human Jesus was incarnate to mortal eyes.

Because of his special status due to the virgin birth and his pure, unselfish nature, Jesus voluntarily faced his struggle in Gethsemane, death, resurrection, and ascension to show humanity that no phase of mortal existence was beyond God's redeeming love.

In later Zoroastrianism this was explained as fleeing from the experiences of life, which was the very purpose that the urvan ( most commonly translated as the ' soul ') was sent into the mortal world to collect.

A mortal known as Utnapishtim survived the flood through the help of another god, Ea, and he was made immortal by Enlil after Enlil's initial fury.

It was a mythological catalogue of the mortal women who had mated with gods, and of the offspring and descendants of these unions.

Hercules is the Roman name for the Greek demigod Heracles, who was the son of Zeus ( Roman equivalent Jupiter ) and the mortal Alcmene.

This was a mortal offence to the Mavromichalis family, and on 9 October 1831 ( 27 September in the Julian Calendar ) Kapodistrias was assassinated by Petrobey's brother Konstantis and son Georgios on the steps of the church of Saint Spyridon in Nafplio.

Heracles was the son of the affair Zeus had with the mortal woman Alcmene.

His twin mortal brother, son of Amphitryon, was Iphicles, father of Heracles ' charioteer Iolaus.

Arianism held that Jesus, while not merely mortal, was not eternally divine and was, therefore, of lesser status than the Father.

In Brown's novel, it is hinted that Jesus was merely a mortal man with strong ideals, and that the Grail was long buried beneath Rosslyn Chapel in Scotland, but that in recent decades its guardians had it relocated to a secret chamber embedded in the floor beneath the Inverted Pyramid near the Louvre Museum.

He concluded, " So, please " Cornucopians ," let's not hear any more of the Ehrlich-Simon bet, which proves, in fact, both that man is mortal and must make short-term bets, and, more importantly, that Ehrlich's argument was right ( so far ).

They asked Zeus to judge which of them was fairest, and eventually he, reluctant to favour any claim himself, declared that Paris, a Trojan mortal, would judge their cases, for he had recently shown his exemplary fairness in a contest in which Ares in bull form had bested Paris's own prize bull, and the shepherd-prince had unhesitatingly awarded the prize to the god.

She was often portrayed as the shrewish, jealous wife of Zeus, who himself often escaped from her controlling ways by cheating on her with other women, mortal and immortal.