God emperor
Appearance
(Redirected from God emperor (disambiguation))
Look up God Emperor in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
God-Emperor or God Emperor may refer to:
Historical and legendary
- Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, a group of mythological rulers or deities in ancient northern China said to be god emperors
- Sapa Inca, the Emperor of the Inca Empire, viewed as a god
- An emperor worshipped as a deity by an imperial cult
- Imperial cult (ancient Rome) identified emperors with divinely sanctioned authority
- Emperor Jimmu, first Emperor of Japan according to legend
- Emperor of Japan, called Tennō, "heavenly sovereign"
Modern popular culture
- Tisroc, the Calormene ruler in The Chronicles of Narnia
- Leto II Atreides, the title character in Frank Herbert's science fiction novel God Emperor of Dune (1981)
- The God-Emperor of Mankind, in the science fantasy universe, Warhammer 40,000
- The Emperor, the godlike character in Andreas Eschbach's The Carpet Makers (2005)
- God Emperor Doom, from Marvel's Secret Wars (2015 comic book)
- God-Emperor, character in The Last Remnant role-playing video game
See also
Look up God Emperor in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
- Christ Pantocrator, a specific depiction of Christ
- Caesaropapism, the idea of combining the power of secular government with the religious power
- Divine right of kings
- God king, a term for a deified ruler
- List of people who have been considered deities
- Sacred king