One month after Hu Tianbao's death, he appeared to a man from his hometown in a dream, claiming that since his crime was one of love, the underworld officials decided to right the injustice by appointing him the god and safeguarder of homosexual affections. The imperial inspector had Hu Tianbao sentenced to death by beating. One day he was caught peeping on the inspector through a bathroom wall, at which point he confessed his reluctant affections for the other man. ĭeified posthumously with the name Tōshō Daigongen by his successors.Īccording to What the Master Would Not Discuss ( Chinese: 子不語), written by Yuan Mei ( Chinese: 袁枚) during the Qing dynasty, Tu'er Shen was a man named Hu Tianbao ( 胡天保) who fell in love with a very handsome imperial inspector of Fujian Province. The Greeks identified Imhotep with their own divine healer and physician, Asclepios (which also healed people in their dreams). In Memphis and on the sacred Island of Philae existed temples dedicated to him. Imhotep's deification led to the deification of his mother named Kheredu-ankh and his wife Renpetnefert. His divinity is clearly attested an inscription, adjancent to his picture in the Ptolemeic temple at Kasr el-Agouz, near Luxor: „Son of Ptah, beneficient god, begotten by the god of the south wall (Ptah), giver of life, who bestows gifts on those he loves, who listen (to those who call upon him), who provides remedies for all diseas“. The gradual deification of Imhotep seems to have been completed about 525 BCE. He was an Egyptian chancellor to the pharaoh Djoser, probable architect of the Djoser's step pyramid, and high priest of the sun god Ra at Heliopolis.

Īncient Egyptian architect and physician whose status, two thousand years after his death, was raised to that of a god, becoming the god of medicine and healing. The opening of the poem describes Gilgamesh as 'one-third human, two-thirds divine'. 1155 BCE), a scribe named Sîn-lēqi-unninni composed the Epic of Gilgamesh, an epic poem written in Akkadian narrating Gilgamesh's heroic exploits. Probably during the Middle Babylonian Period ( c. During this period, a large number of myths and legends developed surrounding him. The kings of the Third Dynasty of Ur were especially fond of Gilgamesh, calling him their 'divine brother' and 'friend'. In the twenty-first century BCE, Utu-hengal, the king of Uruk adopted Gilgamesh as his patron deity. It is certain that, during the later Early Dynastic Period, Gilgamesh was worshipped as a god at various locations across Sumer. Most historians generally agree that Gilgamesh was a historical king of the Sumerian city-state of Uruk, who probably ruled sometime during the early part of the Early Dynastic Period ( c.

The God Complex by Chris Titus