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The list of people considered to be deities consists of those notable human beings who were considered a deity by themselves or others. It additionally contains a few, sufficiently noteworthy, examples where the historicity of the person is disputed. In cases like that the name will be put in italics. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Jump to: navigation, search A deity or a god, is a postulated preternatural being, usually, but not always, of significant power, worshipped, thought holy, divine, or sacred, held in high regard, or respected by human beings. ... Historicity refers to the historical authenticity of a person, event, or place. ...

An asterisk (*) indicates a significant number of followers, while a double dagger (‡) marks those referring to a royal line of deification rather than an individual. An asterisk (*) is a typographical symbol or glyph. ... A dagger (†, †, U+2020) is a typographical symbol or glyph. ...

Who	Image	When	What
Caligula		August 31, 12–January 24, 41	The Roman Emperor Caligula encouraged he be worshipped as a god, although it is not known if it was Jupiter or some other god. [1] During his lifetime he had statues of Jupiter torn down to be replaced by his own likeness, and is known to have declaimed, "Let there be one Lord, one King!" [2]
Commodus		(August 31, 161–December 31, 192 AD)	Demanded he be seen as a God and worshipped as such[3]
Alexander the Great		356 BC–323 BC	Some believe he implied he was a demigod by actively using the title "Son of Ammon–Zeus". The title was bestowed upon him by Egyptian priests of the god Ammon at the Oracle of the god at the Siwah oasis in the Libyan Desert.[4]
‡ Egyptian pharaohs		c. 3050 BC–c. 30 BC	Egyptian pharaohs were kings of Ancient Egypt, and were considered by their culture to be gods. Their titles equated them with aspects of the likes of the hawk god Horus, the vulture goddess Nekhbet and the cobra-goddess Wadjet. See List of pharaohs. [5] [6]
Natchez rulers		c. 700–c. 1730(Theocratic era.)	The Natchez were a theocracy ruled by "The Great Sun." This ruler has sometimes been deemed a God-king. [7]
‡ Jesus		c. 4 BC–c. 29 AD	For almost two billion Christians the most widespread view is that in the Canonical Gospels he said he was God Incarnate, who took on human nature and human flesh and is the second person of the Holy Trinity. One commonly cited statement attributed to Jesus on his godhood is John 14:10 - "Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.(KJB)" Ignatius of Antioch mentioned, "servants of Christ our God" in the tenth chapter of his letter to Smyrna. Other similar religious perspectives on Jesus include the Bahá'í Faith, which considers Jesus to be a manifestation of God, and some Hindus, who equate Jesus with an avatar - an incarnation of God on earth - along with Rama and Krishna. Islam strongly rejects the idea and considers it offensive, but would recognize many consider him such. There are also Christian denominations, like the Christadelphians, who do not consider him God. Others dispute the historicity of Jesus.
* Guan Yu		160-219	In Hong Kong he is revered by both cops and gangsters. In certain schools of Taoism and Chinese Buddhism he also has divine or semi-divine status. The reverence for him may date back to the Sui dynasty. [8]
* Manco Capac		died before 1230	In myth and legend Manco Capac is generally in least the semi-divine son of a Sun god.(See article on him) His actual historical existence is disputed and his religion likely extinct. [9]
* Danila Filippovich		c. Seventeenth century	He believed that he was God and started the Khlysts. (There are various transliterations of his name including Danila Filipov, Danila Filipich, and Daniil Filippovich) [10]
* Father Divine		c. 1880–September 10, 1965	Claimed to be the only true manifestation of God. [11]
Jehovah Wanyonyi		Unknown, 1924 suspected.	"I am the one who created Adam and Eve. I made their bodies and their blood", [...] "I still use human beings by speaking through them, like I spoke through Jesus Christ until he went to Heaven." He has between 120 and a 1000 followers.[12] [13]
* Sangjenim		1871-1909	Jeung-san Sangjenim is accepted by followers of Jeung San Do to be the Ruling God of the Universe who incarnated as a human.Jeang San do site [14] Jump to: navigation, search Gaius Caesar Germanicus Gaius Julius Caesar Germanicus (August 31, 12 – January 24, 41), most commonly known as Caligula, was the third Roman Emperor and third member of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, ruling from AD 37 to 41. ... Image File history File links see also: File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Jump to: navigation, search August 31 is the 243rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (244th in leap years), with 122 days remaining, as the final day of August. ... For other uses, see number 12. ... Jump to: navigation, search January 24 is the 24th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... For alternate uses, see Number 41. ... Jump to: navigation, search Roman Emperor is the title historians use to refer to rulers of the Roman Empire, after the epoch conventionally named the Roman Republic. ... Jump to: navigation, search In Roman mythology, Jupiter (Jove in the vocative (used when addressing the God)) held the same role as Zeus in the Greek pantheon. ... Jump to: navigation, search In Roman mythology, Jupiter (Jove in the vocative (used when addressing the God)) held the same role as Zeus in the Greek pantheon. ... Jump to: navigation, search Commodus as Hercules. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (652x1024, 144 KB) Licensing Photo by antmoose, June 4, 2005 File links The following pages link to this file: Commodus ... Jump to: navigation, search August 31 is the 243rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (244th in leap years), with 122 days remaining, as the final day of August. ... Events March 7 - Roman emperor Antoninus Pius dies and is succeeded by co-Emperors Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus. ... Jump to: navigation, search December 31 is the 365th day of the year (366th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Events The kingdom of Champa begins to control south and central Vietnam (approximate date). ... Jump to: navigation, search Alexander the Great fighting the Persian king Darius (Pompeii mosaic, from a 3rd century BC original Greek painting, now lost). ... Download high resolution version (768x1062, 127 KB)Copy of a Greek (near contemporary?) bust of Alexander the Great in the British Museum. ... Centuries: 5th century BC - 4th century BC - 3rd century BC Decades: 400s BC 390s BC 380s BC 370s BC 360s BC - 350s BC - 340s BC 330s BC 320s BC 310s BC 300s BC 361 BC 360 BC 359 BC 358 BC 357 BC 356 BC 355 BC 354 BC 353... Centuries: 5th century BC - 4th century BC - 3rd century BC Decades: 370s BC 360s BC 350s BC 340s BC 330s BC - 320s BC - 310s BC 300s BC 290s BC 280s BC 270s BC 328 BC 327 BC 326 BC 325 BC 324 BC - 323 BC - 322 BC 321 BC 320... A demigod, a half-god, is a modern distinction, often misapplied in Greek mythology. ... Ammon is an Egyptian proper noun that can refer to at least two distinct entities. ... Jump to: navigation, search Statue of Zeus Phidias created the 12-m (40-ft) tall statue of Zeus at Olympia about 435 BC. The statue was perhaps the most famous sculpture in ancient Greece, imagined here in a 16th-century engraving. ... Ammon is an Egyptian proper noun that can refer to at least two distinct entities. ... An Oracle is a person or agency considered to be a source of wise counsel or prophetic opinion; an infallible authority, usually spiritual in nature. ... Libyan Desert The Libyan Desert is an African desert that is located in the northern and eastern part of the Sahara Desert and occupies southwestern Egypt, eastern Libya and northwestern Sudan. ... Jump to: navigation, search Pharaoh (Hebrew פַּרְעֹה (without niqqud: פרעה), Standard Hebrew ParÊ¿o, Tiberian Hebrew Parʿōh, Arabic فرعون) is a title used to refer to the kings (of godly status) in ancient Egypt. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (692x956, 227 KB)The funerary mask of King Tut in full light. ... Centuries: 2nd century BC - 1st century BC - 1st century Decades: 80s BC 70s BC 60s BC 50s BC 40s BC - 30s BC - 20s BC 10s BC 0s 10s 20s Years: 35 BC 34 BC 33 BC 32 BC 31 BC 30 BC 29 BC 28 BC 27 BC 26 BC... 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Khlysts or Khlysty (Хлысты in Russian), a distorted name, which comes from the word хлыст (khlyst), meaning a whip; the original name was a made-up word Христы (Khristy, or Christians), an underground sect in the late 17th, 18th, 19th and early 20th century that split off from the Russian Orthodox Church. ... (16th century - 17th century - 18th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 17th century was that century which lasted from 1601-1700. ... Khlysts or Khlysty (Хлысты in Russian), a distorted name, which comes from the word хлыст (khlyst), meaning a whip; the original name was a made-up word Христы (Khristy, or Christians), an underground sect in the late 17th, 18th, 19th and early 20th century that split off from the Russian Orthodox Church. ... Father Divine (c. ... Image File history File links Originally from http://www. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1880 was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... 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* Kysosoma(Kanichi Otsuka)		May 3, 1891–May 18, 1972	Shinreikyo states of its founder "God became one with a human body, appeared among humanity, and founded Shinreikyo."[15]
*Juanita Peraza(MITA)		1897–1970	According to the Mita faith, Mita (Peraza) was the incarnation of the Holy Ghost on earth.[16]
Henry James Prince		1811–1899	He referred to himself as Elijah...also privately claiming that he was the incarnation of the Holy Ghost.[17]
Ted R. Kurts		b. 1959	Maintained a web presence promoting himself as "Ted Jesus Christ GOD" [18]
Matayoshi Jesus		b. 1944	In 1997 He established the World Economic Community Party (世界経済共同体党) based on his conviction that he is the God and Christ. [19]
Yahweh ben Yahweh		b.October 27, 1935	He was born as Hulon Mitchell, Jr. and his self-proclaimed name means "God, Son of God." He could have only been deeming himself to be "son of God", not God, but several statements indicate otherwise.[20][21]
* Wallace Fard Muhammad		1877?-1934?	The Nation of Islam revered him as a living God for a time. Currently the NOI's website refers to him more as a servant of God.[22]
* Haile Selassie		1892-1975	Among many followers of the Rastafari movement, which developed in the 1930s in Jamaica under the influence of Marcus Garvey's "Back to Africa" movement, Haile Selassie is seen as God incarnate, the Black Messiah who will lead the peoples of Africa and the African diaspora to freedom. His official titles, King of kings, Lord of lords, Conquering Lion of the Tribe of Judah and Root of David, are believed to be the titles of the returned Messiah in the New Testament Book of Revelation. Their belief in the incarnate divinity of Emperor Haile Selassie began very shortly after his crowning.[23]
* Feliksa Kozłowska		1862-1921	Archbishop Jan Maria Michal Kowalski on leading the Catholic Mariavite Church, "declared even more radical pronouncements, the most radical of which was that Felicja had in fact been the incarnation of the Holy Spirit upon the earth." How widespread this belief is amongst current members of the Catholic Mariavite Church is uncertain.
Lou de Palingboer		February 19, 1898 - March 23, 1968	A divorced Dutch man named Louwrens Voorthuijzen who proclaimed himself "Lou the the farmer of European eel", this being the translation of his proclaimed name "Lou de Palingboer, a figure who mixed marketing European eels with proselytism. His followers would also consider him a living God on a mission against evil.[24]

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See also

• Apotheosis means glorification, usually to a divine level, coming from the Greek word apotheoun, "to deify."

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• Arahitogami is a Japanese word, meaning a god who is a human being.
• Believers in Suitheism believe themselves, and usually all humans to be gods, since they declaim most traditional gods, including the God of Christianity, Judaism and Islam.
• List of deities
• List of avatar claimants
• List of Buddha claimants
• List of messiah claimants
• List of people who have claimed to be Jesus

Apotheosis of French soldiers fallen in the liberation war, Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson, beginning of 19th century. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Jump to: navigation, search Logo en:Wiktionary Wiktionary is a sister project to Wikipedia intended to be a free wiki dictionary (including thesaurus and lexicon) in every language. ... Arahitogami (現人神) is a Japanese word, meaning a god who is a human being. ... In Paganism, Neo-Paganism, and Satanism, a Suitheist is person who believes himself to be a god, but does not deny the existence of other gods. ... Jump to: navigation, search This list of deities aims to give information about deities in the different religions, cultures and mythologies of the world. ... People said by themselves or by their followers to be an avatar. ... List of Buddha claimants is a short list of people who claimed to have attained enlightenment and became Buddhas. ... Jump to: navigation, search This is a list of people who have been said to be a messiah either by themselves, or by their followers. ... Jump to: navigation, search It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with List of people who claim to be Jesus Christ. ...

References

1. ^  Philo, Josephus, Suetonius, and Dio all report that Caligula was convinced of his own divinity and encouraged (or required) others to worship him as a god. The sources do not agree on whether he thought he was an incarnation of Jupiter, a brother of Jupiter, or some other sort of god. Zotti, Ed; Bibliophage (2003). Was the Roman emperor Caligula as crazy as they say?: Claim to divinity. The Straight Dope. Retrieved July 15, 2005.
2. ^  He took many titles--the "Pious", 'Son of the Camp", "Father of the Forces", and "Caesar Best and Greatest". On one occasion at dinner at his house, when he heard some kings who had come to Rome to pay him their respects arguing among themselves as to which of them came of the noblest line, he declaimed: Let there be one Lord, one King! He came very close to assuming a diadem on the spot and turning what looked like a principate into the appearance of a monarchy. But when he was reminded that his own position had risen above that of princes or even of Kings, he began from that time to lay claim to the majesty of a god. He gave orders that statues of gods noted for their religious and artistic importance, including the statue of Zeus from Olympia, were to be brought from Greece in order that their heads might be removed and replaced with copies of his own. Suetonius Tranquillus (May 1, 2001). Lives of the Caesars, 146. Google Print. ISBN 0192832719 (accessed July 8, 2005). Also available in print from Oxford University Press.
3. ^  "He allowed statues of himself to be erected with the accoutrements of Hercules; and sacrifices were performed to him as to a god."Historia Augusta[25]
4. ^  Not the least of the many extraordinary facts about Alexander is that both in his lifetime and after his death he was worshipped as a god, by Greeks and Macedonians as well as, for example, Egyptians (to whom he was Pharaoh). The episode that led to Callisthenes' death in 327 was connected to this fact. Greeks and Macedonians believed that formal obeisance should be paid only to gods. So the refusal of his Greek and Macedonian courtiers to pay it to Alexander implied that they, at any rate, did not believe he genuinely was a living god, at least not in the same sense as Zeus or Dionysus were. Alexander, regardless, did nothing to discourage the view that he really was divine. His claim to divine birth, not merely divine descent, was part of a total self-promotional package, which included the striking of silver medallions in India depicting him with the attributes of Zeus. Through sheer force of personality and magnitude of achievement he won over large numbers of ordinary Greeks and Macedonians to share this view of himself, and to act on it by devoting shrines to his cult.Cartledge, Paul (2004).Alexander the Great, History Today, 54:

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1. ^  The rulers of Egypt, first the kings and later the pharaohs, were gods as well as men who ruled by divine right. Each king was 'the son of god', who at the point of death became one with his father, to be god in a cosmic Heaven. Christopher Knight, Robert Lomas (August 1, 2001). The Hiram Key: Pharaohs, Freemasons and the Discovery of the Secret Scrolls of Jesus, 100. Google Print. ISBN 1931412758 (accessed July 13, 2005). Also available in print from Fair Winds.
2. ^  The king had a superhuman role, being a manifestation of a god or of various deities on earth. The king's principle original title, the Horus name, proclaimed that he was an aspect of one of the chief gods, Horus, a sky god who was depicted as a falcon. Other identifications were added to this one, notably, "Son of Re [the sun god]" and "Perfect God," both introduced during the 4th dynasty (c. 2575-2465 BCE), when the great pyramids were constructed. The epithet "Son of Re" placed the king in a close but dependent relation with the leading figure of the pantheon.Mirriam-Webster (1999). Encyclopedia of World Religions (Hardcover), Mirriam Webster, Incorporated. ISBN 0877790442
3. ^  The community leader would be called the Great Sun. Natchez social organization was based on the relationship of community members to the Great Sun. In the 17th century, French explorers and colonists met this leader, who lived in a large house on the top of a platform mound at the site that is now preserved by the State of Mississippi as the Grand Village of the Natchez. The Great Sun enjoyed the status of a living god[26]
4. ^  "People worship Emperor Guan not merely as a law-protecting heavenly deity, but also as god of war, god of wealth and god of righteousness. They pray to Emperor Guan for many reasons..."[27]
5. ^ "The Inca solar god and god of fire. He is the progenitor of the Inca race. Brother of Pachacamac." by Micha F. Lindemans[28]
6. ^  His teaching of Twelve Commitments stated, "I am God predicted by the prophets; I descended on the earth to save the human souls; there is no God but me. There is no other teaching. Do not seek for it."St. Petersburg State University article
7. ^ One by Sarra Harris, "Father Divine: Holy Husband", contended that even though Father Divine condemned carnal relations, he enjoyed a series of mistresses. [...] Harris's interpretation offended Father Divine, and in 1953 he placed a curse on her: "...This is Judgement Day! ... Now she is cursed! Naturally she is cursed! I mean I curse her. I in the name of Almighty God!...and you have declared I am God....I curse her without end--until the world shall never end." Jill Watts (February 1, 1995). God, Harlem U.S.A.: The Father Divine Story, Preface xii. Google Print. ISBN 0520201728 (accessed July 12, 2005). Also available in print from University of California Press.
8. ^  International Cultic Studies Association (2001).INTERNATIONAL: Kenya-"God" and 400 Followers Living in Kenya, Cultic Studies Journal, 18, No. 4:

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1. ^  BBC News (November 12, 2001). "Kenyan 'God' sent Aids as 'punishment'". Retrieved December 29, 2004.
2. ^  "who was/is regarded by his followers as the incarnation of SangJe (Shangti), the Ruler of the Universe in religious Taoism" University of California Press. "Sangjenim is the governing spirit of the universe, personified and embodied." from their own site.
3. ^  "When I sat cross-legged by myself just like the great statue of the Buddha in Nara, I felt that the earth, about the size of a watermelon, was underneath me and I could see the other me walking about on it. I experience the real "me" looking down at the other "me" on this small planet. I was and understood everything on this earth (Shinreikyo History:5). Religious movements home page
4. ^ Essay in Latin American Issues Volume 13 states she taught that, "when a shooting star moving in the distance suddenly approached her and landed on her forehead, filling the room with light (Cruz). She had become the living incarnation of the Holy Spirit, who at that moment revealed to her the name of God in this new era: 'MITA'" or "Spirit of Life."
5. ^ Article by Timothy C. F. Stunt in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
6. ^  Ted R. Kurts (2004). Ted Jesus Christ God. Retrieved August 17, 2005.
7. ^  "After the Upper House Election, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi should hand the seat of the Prime Minister to Jesus Matayoshi, the one true God."[29]
8. ^ "He identified himself as the 'grand master of the celestial lodge, the architect of the universe'"Crimelibrary
9. ^ Miami Herald(October 15, 2001). "the old message of self-esteem has been crowded out by one that elevates their leader to Grand Master of All, the God of the Universe, the Grand Potentate, the Everlasting Father and the persecuted Messiah."
10. ^ "Allah (God) came to us from the Holy City Mecca, Arabia, in 1930. He used the name Wallace D. Fard, often signing it W.D. Fard. In the third year (1933), He signed His name W.F. Muhammad, which stands for Wallace Fard Muhammad. He came alone. He began teaching us the knowledge of ourselves, of God and the devil, of the measurement of the earth, of other planets, and of the civilizations of some of the planets other than earth." Elijah Muhammad
11. ^  Rastafarians regard Haile Selassie I as God because Marcus Garvey's prophecy -"Look to Africa where a black king shall be crowned, he shall be the Redeemer" - was swiftly followed by the ascension of Haile Selassie as Emperor of Ethiopia.Haile Selassie I is regarded by Rastafarians to be the God of the Black race.BBC
12. ^  De God die Lou heette (Dutch language) "The God that was called Lou" VPRO TV programme.

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External links

• Old Dotty Clutteredbucket (2001). Walking, Talking, Living Gods. Retrieved December 29, 2004.
• Unknown (2002). Incarnations of God. Retrieved June 20, 2005. (Satire)