<Tr> <Td> Dalai Lamas </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> 1391--present </Td> <Td> Considered re-incarnations of Avalokiteśvara in Tibetan Buddhism . Panchen Lamas are incarnations of Amitābha . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Inca emperors </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> 1438 </Td> <Td> The Inca Emperors had a status very similar to that of the Pharaohs of Egypt . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Nepalese kings </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> 1768--2008 </Td> <Td> In Nepal, the kings of the Shah dynasty were considered incarnations of Vishnu . </Td> </Tr> <Table> <Tr> <Th> Who </Th> <Th> Image </Th> <Th> When </Th> <Th> Notability </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Imhotep </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> 2600 BCE </Td> <Td> Ancient Egyptian architect and physician, who two thousand years after his death, was raised to that of a god, becoming the god of medicine and healing . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Queen Dido of Carthage </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> 814 BCE </Td> <Td> Founder and first queen of Carthage, after her death, she was deified by her people with the name of Tanit and assimilated to the Great Goddess Astarte (Roman Juno). The cult of Tanit survived Carthage's destruction by the Romans; it was introduced to Rome itself by Emperor Septimius Severus, himself born in North Africa . It was extinguished completely with the Theodosian decrees of the late 4th century . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Homer </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> 8th century BCE </Td> <Td> Venerated at Alexandria by Ptolemy IV Philopator . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Romulus and Remus </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> 771 BCE--717 BCE </Td> <Td> Founders of Rome, sons of Mars, Romulus served as first king . After his death, Romulus was defined as the god Quirinus, the divine persona of the Roman people . He is now regarded as a mythological figure, and his name a back - formation from the name Rome, which may ultimately derive from a word for "river". Some scholars, notably Andrea Carandini believe in the historicity of Romulus, in part because of the 1988 discovery of the Murus Romuli on the north slope of the Palatine Hill in Rome . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> The Buddha </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> 563 BCE (?) </Td> <Td> Believed a god by some Mahayana sects, and worshipped as an avatar of Vishnu by some Vaishnavas . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Hephaestion </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> 356 BCE--324 BCE </Td> <Td> Deified by Alexander the Great </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Alexander the Great </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> 356 BCE--323 BCE </Td> <Td> 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 . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Jesus </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> 1st century </Td> <Td> Further information: History of early Christianity, Pauline Christianity, Christology, and Dating the Bible § Table IV: New Testament <P> The Pauline epistles from the early second half of the 1st century CE offer the earliest references to Jesus as the Son of God (See Romans 1 for example). The First Council of Nicaea of 325 AD crystallized this notion in the Nicene creed and declared Jesus God Incarnate . Early Christian denominations with different christologies such as the Ebionites fell in popularity, and he is now considered divine in most Christian views of Jesus (God the Son in Trinitarian Christianity). </P> See also: § Self - deification </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Antinous </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> 111 CE--130 CE </Td> <Td> Deified by Hadrian . He is the last non-Imperial human formally deified in Western civilization . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Mary, mother of Jesus </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> 300 CE </Td> <Td> In 300 AD she was worshipped as a Mother Goddess in the Christian sect Collyridianism, which was found throughout the Thrace . Collyridianism was made up mostly of women followers and female priests . Followers of Collyridianism were known to make bread and wheat offerings to the Virgin Mary, along with other sacrificial practices . The cult was heavily condemned as heretical and schismatic by other Christians and was preached against by Epiphanius of Salamis, who discussed the group in his recollective writings titled Panarion . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Guan Yu </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> 581 CE--618 CE </Td> <Td> Guan Yu has been deified as early as the Sui Dynasty and is still popularly worshipped today among the Chinese people variedly as an indigenous Chinese deity, a bodhisattva in Buddhism and a guardian deity in Taoism . He is also held in high esteem in Confucianism . In Hong Kong both police and gangsters consider him a divine object of reverence . In certain schools of Taoism and Chinese Buddhism he has been deemed divine or semi-divine status . The reverence for him may date back to the Sui dynasty . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> 599 CE--661 CE </Td> <Td> According to the Alawite faith, Ali ibn Abi Talib is one member of a trinity (Ali - Muhammad - Salman the Persian) corresponding roughly to the Christian Father, Son, and Holy Spirit . He is considered the second emanation of God by Yarsan and the supreme deity in Ali - Illahism . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Sugawara no Michizane </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> 845 CE--903 CE </Td> <Td> Japanese Imperial courtier banished from the capital and deified upon his death to appease his angry spirit . Worshipped as Tenjin, kami of scholarship . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Al - Hakim bi-Amr Allah </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> 985 CE--1021 CE </Td> <Td> Sixth Fatimid Caliph in Egypt, ruling from 996 to 1021 . The members of the Druze faith believe that the Fatimid Caliph Al - Hakim bi-Amr Allah is the Mahdi . The Muslim scholar and early preacher Nashtakin ad - Darazi claimed that the Caliph was God incarnate . Because of that he was executed by al hakim who did not proclaim he that he was God . The druze today do reject Ad - Darazi's preaching completely </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Tokugawa Ieyasu </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> 1616 </Td> <Td> Deified posthumously with the name Tōshō Daigongen by his successors . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> George Washington </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> 1865 </Td> <Td> Worshipped as a kami in Hawaiian Shinto shrines . In the United States Capitol dome, he is also depicted ascending into Heaven and becoming a god, in the famous painting called The Apotheosis of Washington . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Kanichi Otsuka </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> 1891 </Td> <Td> Shinreikyo states of its founder "God became one with a human body, appeared among humanity, and founded Shinreikyo ." </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> L.L. Zamenhof </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> 20th century </Td> <Td> Considered a god by members of the Oomoto religion . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> José Rizal </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> 20th century </Td> <Td> Deified by some people in the Philippines due to his contributions to the Philippine Revolution . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Wallace Fard Muhammad </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> 20th century </Td> <Td> Posthumously (?) deified by Elijah Muhammad . He is also given other titles by the Nation of Islam . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Mother Teresa </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> Worshipped as a Hindu goddess by some inhabitants of Kolkata . </Td> </Tr> </Table>

Tribal leaders was looked upon as god incarnate