God emperor

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

• God Emperor of Dune, the fourth novel in Frank Herbert's Dune series
  • Leto II Atreides, the title character of the novel, introduced in the previous novel
• The God-Emperor of Mankind, in the science fantasy universe, Warhammer 40,000, first published in 1987
• 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
• God Emperor Trump, a statue of, and term for, US President Donald Trump.

See also

• 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
• Mandate of Heaven
• Sacred king