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An imperial cult is a form of state religion in which an emperor or a dynasty of emperors (or rulers of another title) are worshipped as demigods or deities...
The Roman imperial cult (Latin: cultus imperatorius) identified emperors and some members of their families with the divinely sanctioned authority (auctoritas)...
In European Christianity, the divine right of kings, divine right, or God's mandation, is a political and religious doctrine of political legitimacy of...- veneration of the ancestral dead and of the Genius, the divine tutelary of every individual. The Imperial cult became one of the major ways in which Rome...
- Divinity#Mortals Divinization (Christian) Euhemerism Folk saint God complex God in Hinduism Godman (Hindu ascetic) Hero cult Idolatry Imperial cult Incarnation...
- survey of theological groups as constructed by the Romans themselves. For the cult pertaining to deified Roman emperors (divi), see Imperial cult. Certain...
Isis (redirect from Cult of Isis)resembling those of other Greco-Roman mystery cults. Some of her devotees said she encompassed all feminine divine powers in the world. The worship of Isis was...
Apotheosis (redirect from Divinized)divine or deified), though not consistently. Temples and columns were erected to provide a space for worship. The imperial cult was mainly popular in...
any kind of closed crown was assumed to be imperial in character. — Philip Grierson During the Middle Ages the crowns worn by English kings had been described...- uprisings organised by self-proclaimed "kings" and "heirs". In such harsh conditions, while the imperial cult continued the sacrifices to the cosmological...
- Sacred king (redirect from Divine kingship)religious thought. Devaraja, cult of divine kings in Southeast Asia. Germanic kingship Holy Roman Emperor Imperial cult The Omukama of Kitara ruled as a heavenly...
Hellenistic religion (redirect from Hellenistic ruler cult)practices and Greek hero-cults and established themselves as Pharaohs within the new syncretic Ptolemaic cult of Alexander III of Macedonia. Elsewhere, rulers...
and presenting cultic gifts to the city's gods. This failure might have been interpreted as the kings thus not having the necessary divine endorsement to...- Frankish paganism (section Symbolism of cattle)beside lakes and rivers, and consecration of woods. Generally, Germanic gods were associated with local cult centres and their sacred character and power...
Roman Empire (redirect from Imperial Roman)efficient in its use of available resources. The Imperial cult of ancient Rome identified emperors and some members of their families with divinely sanctioned...
"Son of Heaven", an autocrat with the divine mandate right to rule all under Heaven. Emperors were worshiped posthumously under an imperial cult. The...
Coronation (redirect from Coronation of the hungarian monarch)part of the imperial cult as it developed during the 3rd century. The origin of the crown is thus religious, comparable to the significance of a halo, marking...
Roma (personification) (category National symbols of Italy)traditional cult personifications of the demos (ordinary people). In 189 BC, Delphi and Lycia instituted festivals in her honour. Roma as "divine sponsor" of athletics...
Thracian religion (redirect from Balkan cult)cult in his honour. Associations with kingship were also present in the "Apollonian" aspect of Zis, from whom the Thracian kings also claimed divine descent...
Mars (mythology) (redirect from Mars, God Of War)of Gordian III, at an imperial cult center sometime between 238 and 244 AD; Edmondson, "The Cult of Mars Augustus," p. 562. Miranda Green, Animals in...
- Canon of History says, “Without deflection, without unevenness, without perversity, without onesidedness,―such was the Way of the ancient kings.” Both
- descendants of the Sun-Goddess. It is the Japanese version of the doctrine of the divine right of kings. Without these and similar vital elements Japanese myth
- practice included both temple rituals involved in the cult of a deity, and ceremonies related to divine kingship. Among the latter were coronation ceremonies