"Apotheosis" means "elevation to divine status," or more simply, deification.
It would've done so eventually, it always does, but you may have saved me an hour or two of going back over their relationship in my head and pulling out the emotional and thematic undercurrents of what's been established over the last couple of seasons.
One is fallingtoward something which is rising, therefore promising imminent conflict.
Apotheosis of French soldiers fallen in the liberation war, Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson, beginning of 19th century.
Apotheosis is most commonly used to refer to the Roman pagan process whereby an Emperor was made into or recognized as a deity.
As apotheosis became a part of Roman political life in the late Republic and early Empire, it began to be treated in literary contexts: In the Aeneid, Vergil depicts Aeneas' deification, saying he will be taken up to the stars of Heaven, and mentions Caesar's apotheosis.
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