God king

God king or God-King, god-king is a term for a deified ruler or euhemerized pagan deity, in particular used of:

the Egyptian Pharaohs^[1]
a pagan sacred king^[2]

References

^ John Jackson, Chronological Antiquities, 1752, p. 134. Heinrich Brugsch, A History of Egypt Under the Pharaohs, J. Murray, 1881
^ Wilfred L. Guerin, A Handbook of Critical Approaches to Literature, Oxford University Press, 2005, p. 193.

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[1] John Jackson, Chronological Antiquities, 1752, p. 134. Heinrich Brugsch, A History of Egypt Under the Pharaohs, J. Murray, 1881

[2] Wilfred L. Guerin, A Handbook of Critical Approaches to Literature, Oxford University Press, 2005, p. 193.

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