To the rhetors of his court, Manuel was the "divine emperor".

Yasukuni Shrine was built in 1869, as part of Japan's drive to create a nationalistic state religion centered around a divine emperor.

As mortal brother to the new divine emperor, Osidian would take Molochite's place as blood sacrifice.

The orthodoxy used to be Confucianism, which imposed a social hierarchy as a kind of cosmic order, with the divine emperor at its pinnacle.

Before the Spanish arrived in the 16th century, the archipelago lacked common bonds or a remote, divine emperor who symbolized central authority.

He asked the divine emperor to consecrate the protection of the blade to a single family, whose duty it was to hide and guard it.

Politically, Qi flowed from heaven through earth into and the through the divine emperor through his city out of the gates into his realm.

Yasukuni was built in 1869 as part of Japan's drive to establish a strong, modern country founded on a nationalistic state religion with a divine emperor at the center.

The vote began the tradition of the divine emperors; however, the divinity went with the office and not the man.

Germany is no longer the Germany of Hitler's hysterical rallies, and Japan no longer worships a divine emperor, he writes.