A culture hero can easily be assimilated to a god by identifying him with an incarnation of a god.
"In popular imagination he exists as an icon, an incarnation of evil," said Andrews.
He is an incarnation of a joint culture with a glorious but imperilled heritage.
All of them eventually made his earthly existence seem, even to Southerners, less a life than an incarnation.
The Avatar, an incarnation of a divine being, is supposed to maintain the world's order.
One theory is that it was considered an incarnation of Mahes, a god with the head of a lion.
Behind the walls of the sanctum, there is an image of Venugopalaswamy, an incarnation of Vishnu.
He consciously represented himself not as an American Caesar but as an incarnation of American democracy.
There is more than a suggestion that Edilberto may be an incarnation of the devil.
Also an incarnation of Vishnu, he was a mama's boy who teased the girls and played hard-to-get.
From this point onwards, he was known as Swaminarayan and within the sect, he is regarded as an incarnation of God, Purushottama, or is venerated as an incarnation of Narayana from the Nara-Narayana deity pair by his followers.
