This was further solidified as the status quo following the installation of the Roman imperial cult of deification of sitting emperors, and Roman pluralism was not officially extended to Abrahamic monotheistic religions until Christianity ( which had been previously branded an atheistic religion by the state ) became the de facto official religion of the empire.

After his deification, the initiation ceremony of the cult of his memory dictates that this same prosperity be bestowed upon followers, on a personal level.

In Egyptian mythology, Satet ( also spelt Satis, Satjit, Sates, and Sati ) was the deification of the floods of the Nile River, and her cult originated in the ancient city of Swenet, now called Aswan on the southern edge of Egypt.

He further argues that the deification of a guru is a traditional element of Eastern spirituality, but, when detached from the Eastern cultural element and copied by Westerners, the distinction between the person who is the guru and that which he symbolizes is often lost, resulting in the relationship between the guru and disciple degenerating into a boundless, uncritical personality cult.

* Shirk by deification: This form of shirk in al-Asma was Sifat relates to cases where created beings or things are given or claim God's names or His attributes.

Writing his Lives of Illustrious Men ( Parallel Lives ) in the first century CE, the Middle Platonic philosopher Plutarch's chapter on Romulus gave an account of his mysterious disappearance and subsequent deification, comparing it to traditional Greek beliefs such as the resurrection and physical immortalization of Alcmene and Aristeas the Proconnesian, " for they say Aristeas died in a fuller's work-shop, and his friends coming to look for him, found his body vanished ; and that some presently after, coming from abroad, said they met him traveling towards Croton.

The name Dagda may ultimately be derived from the Proto-Indo-European * Dhagho-deiwos " shining divinity ", the first element being cognate with the English word " day ", and possibly a byword for a deification of a notion such as " splendour ".

Jefferson wrote, " The establishment of the innocent and genuine character of this benevolent moralist, and the rescuing it from the imputation of imposture, which has resulted from artificial systems, e. g. The immaculate conception of Jesus, his deification, the creation of the world by him, his miraculous powers, his resurrection and visible ascension, his corporeal presence in the Eucharist, the Trinity ; original sin, atonement, regeneration, election, orders of Hierarchy, etc.

Metamorphoses ( from the Greek, " transformations ") is a Latin narrative poem in fifteen books by the Roman poet Ovid, describing the history of the world from its creation to the deification of Julius Caesar within a loose mythico-historical framework.

Apep ( or ) or Apophis (; ; also spelled Apepi or Aapep ) was an evil god in Egyptian mythology, the deification of darkness and chaos ( ı ͗ zft in Egyptian ), and thus opponent of light and Ma ' at ( order / truth ), whose existence was believed from the 8th Dynasty ( mentioned at Moalla ) onwards.

Sopdu's name, meaning with Sopd, derives from this heat arriving shortly after the star Sirius has its heliacal rising, and thus being seen as coming with Sopdet, Sopdet being the deification of Sirius ( Sopd is the masculine form of Sopdet, t being the feminine determinant ).

Its primary aims were " to combat the fallacious deification of the circle ," " to restore man's confidence in the validity of his own perceptions ", and " to spearhead man's escape from his metaphysical and geometrical prison.

As noted by both LDS and non-LDS scholars of early Christianity, there exist many references to a more literal belief in deification in the writings of the Church Fathers ( which some LDS and non-LDS scholars and early Church historians claim most closely resemble the beliefs of Mormon Christians than the beliefs of any other modern faith group derived from the Christian tradition ), including, but certainly not limited to, the following:

Apotheosis ( from Greek ἀποθέωσις from ἀποθεοῦν, apotheoun " to deify "; in Latin deificatio " making divine "; also called divinization and deification ) is the glorification of a subject to divine level.

Theosis is the gradual submission of man to the good, who then with Divine grace from his relationship or union with God, attains deification.

The teaching of deification or theosis in Eastern Orthodoxy refers to the attainment of likeness of God, union with God and / or reconciliation with God.

Most notably, several non-LDS scholars have noted the similarities between the beliefs in deification between Eastern Orthodox Christians, Coptic Christians, and Mormons, which similarities largely persist until this day.

According to the teachings of Eastern Orthodox Christianity, the quintessential purpose and goal of the Christian life is to attain theosis or ' deification ', understood as ' likeness to ' or ' union with ' God.

The practice of ascetic prayer called Hesychasm in the Eastern Orthodox Church is centered on the enlightenment, deification ( theosis ) of man.

Meyendorff's landmark study of Palamas however, " set Palamas firmly within the context of Greek patristic thought and spirituality " with the result that Palamism is now generally understood to be " a faithful witness to the long-standing Eastern Christian emphasis on deification ( theosis ) as the purpose of the divine economy in Christ.

Nearly all world religions define tasks or roles for mothers through either religious law or through the deification or glorification of mothers who served in substantial religious events.

Some historians have argued that he merely aimed at reinventing the old religions in the light of the beginning deification of political rulers such as Alexander the Great.

Leading his army back up the Euphrates, south of Circesium Philip erected a cenotaph in honor of Gordian III, but his ashes were sent ahead to Rome, where he arranged for Gordian III ’ s deification.

Theosis ( Greek for " making divine ", " deification ", " to become gods by Grace ") and for " divinization ", " reconciliation, union with God " and " glorification ") is expressed as " Being, union with God " and having a relationship or synergy between God and man.

Heka (; ; also spelt Hike ) was the deification of magic in Egyptian mythology, his name being the Egyptian word for " magic ".

Exaltation often referred to as being a more literal belief in both the ancient and modern Christian doctrine of deification or divinization.

She also carries within her a yearning, a majestic quasi-religious sensibility which finds its apotheosis in the deification, as she dies, of her pet parrot who floats above her deathbed masquerading as the Holy Ghost, the love she shows to the parrot being symbolic of her altruism.

This process is called theosis, or deification, and is a spiritual pilgrimage in which each person strives to both become more holy through the imitation of Christ and cultivation of the inner life through unceasing prayer ( most famously, the Jesus Prayer ) or hesychasm, until united at death with the fire of God's love.

This doctrine is generally referred to by scholars both inside and outside Mormon Christianity as the Christian deification.

Truly, that Liberals should choose Louis 14, as a bogey-symbol of conservatism is grotesquely ironic, considering the Louis 14, character of their Grand Monarque, FDR: not only in his accretion of absolute power and personal deification, ( le roi gouverne par lui meme ), but in the disastrous effects of his spending and war policies.

* As part of his actions to strengthen his political ties to Caesar's former soldiers, in 42 BC, following the deification of Caesar, Octavian added Divi Filius ( Son of the Divine ) to his name, becoming Gaius Julius Caesar Divi Filius.

This coin commemorates the apotheosis | deification of Domitian's son.

Significantly, his first act as an Emperor was the deification of his brother Titus.

According to Suetonius, the people of Rome met the news of Domitian's death with indifference, but the army was much grieved, calling for his deification immediately after the assassination, and in several provinces rioting.

According to Samuel Angus ( 1925 ) the gnostic sectarians also sought to reconcile the individual to their own personal deification ( henosis ), making each individual God.

This process as described by Gregory is the public manifestation of the process of deification ( theosis ), which leads to a spiritual elevation and mystical union with God.

If you look at icons of Jesus and Mary: Jesus wears red undergarment with a blue outer garment ( God become Human ) and Mary wears a blue undergarment with a red overgarment ( human was granted gifts by God ), thus the doctrine of deification is conveyed by icons.

Originally shamanistic practices that have over time may once have been monotheistic later once since deification of an Earth Mother to the Sky father as a Duality, also including ancestor worship and an addition for a " sun deity ", polytheizing the religion and more deities were incorporated after-wards.

This association with the pharaoh's wife is consistent with the role of Isis as the spouse of Horus, the god associated with the pharaoh as his protector, and then later as the deification of the pharaoh himself.

In protest of Washington's perceived " deification " by the city and citizens of Chicago, and because it was widely reported by local media that Washington was found by paramedics wearing women's underclothes, Art Institute of Chicago student David Nelson painted Mirth & Girth, a caricature that depicted Washington wearing women's lingerie and holding a pencil.

When the functions of political ruler and religious leader are combined in this way, deification could be seen to be the next logical stage of his or her social advancement within his or her native environment, as is found in the case of the Egyptian Pharaohs.

In Greek mythology, the maiden Psyche was the deification of the human soul.

Ovid in Book 14, lines 812-828, of the Metamorphoses gives a description of the deification of Romulus and his wife Hersilia, who are given the new names of Quirinus and Hora respectively.

Romulus is portrayed as a gifted leader though a remarkably unpleasant person, chiefly distinguished by his luck ; the story of his surreptitious murder by the senators is adopted, but although the story of his deification is fabricated, his murderers themselves think he may indeed have become a god.

Octavian — who had begun calling himself " Divi filius " (" son of the divinity ") after Caesar's deification as Divus Iulius (" the Divine Julius ") and now styled himself simply " Imperator Caesar " — took control of the West, Antony of the East, and Lepidus of Hispania and Africa.

He was originally the deification of the Moon in the Ogdoad belief system.

Thoth was inserted in many tales as the wise counsel and persuader, and his association with learning, and measurement, led him to be connected with Seshat, the earlier deification of wisdom, who was said to be his daughter, or variably his wife.

Chraesvelgoron of The True Frost sees Nazism as the political appearance of Satanism and the collective deification of man as a social animal, as godliness instead of humaneness.