Sentence examples for Divine king from inspiring English sources
Their political organization is monarchical: a divine king is a representative of the sky god.
The Shilluk are the most highly organized, having a divine king who symbolizes the whole realm.
Hammurabi simply stands, gesturing with his right arm as if explaining his code to the divine king.
Unusual natural phenomena, such as an especially bright star, are sometimes connected with the birth of a divine king.
It was demolished by a mob of Hindu fanatics in 1992 because they believed it trespassed on the birthplace of the divine king Ram.
The Shilluk were historically united in a single state headed by a divine king (reth) chosen from the sons of previous kings.
"There was a proliferation of population, an increase in agriculture and a rise in divine kings that became prominent leaders".
The activist artist can see the great suffering and genius that went into the design, implementation, and realization of great palaces, portraits of aristocracy and sculptural monuments of divine kings.
As his direct descendants, the first kings and their offspring became divine kings.
The new exhibition shows that the most fundamental aspects of ancient Egyptian civilization — architecture, hieroglyphic writing, a belief in the afterlife, and allegiance to a semi-divine king — can be traced to Egypt's Predynastic and Early Dynastic eras more than 1,000 years before the pyramids were built.
Some accounts identify him as Thomas the Apostle, traveling from India; others insist he was the divine Toltec king Quetzalcoatl, god of civilization.
