Cambodia's kings once enjoyed a semi-divine status; today, the monarch's role is mainly ceremonial.

"The sacrality of Gratidianus' execution," it has been noted, "was a symbolic negation of his semi-divine status as popular saviour and hero."

If this is the case, Shah Jahanmay have been at least as interested in reaffirming his own semi-divine status as he was in grieving for his wife.

Rashid enjoyed considerable independence from the Nizari centre in Alamut and some writings attribute him with a semi-divine status.

Chinese dragons and other Asian dragons were an exception to all this; unlike their western cousins, they never lost their semi-divine status and, again unlike them, they were mostly benevolent.

M. G. Ramachandran enjoys a semi-divine status in Tamil Nadu with people constructing temples for him.

They often keep their own societies or town quarters, perform specific occupations (such as masseurs, hairdressers, flower-sellers, domestic servants, etc.) and are generally attributed a semi-divine status.

As an advocate for humanity he gains semi-divine status at Athens, where the episode in Theogony in which he is liberated is interpreted by Casanova as a post-Hesiodic interpolation.

After her death Enheduanna continued to be remembered as an important figure, perhaps even attaining semi-divine status.

They are widely thought of as the embodiment of a particular kami and therefore hold a semi-divine status.