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'''Self-deification''' is the belief that oneself is a [[deity]] or the striving for personal [[apotheosis]]. The term '''autotheism''' can be used in the same sense (first attested in 1619),<ref>[http://phrontistery.info/church.html Word List: Definitions of Ecclesiastical Terms<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> but it should be noted that the term has an [[autotheism|unrelated meaning]] as a technical term in [[Christology]]. |
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'''Suitheism''' is a [[hybrid word|hybrid]] [[neologism]] coined by American [[occult]]ists David Michael Cunningham and Traeonna A. R. Wagener with the same meaning<ref>''Creating Magickal Entities'', 2001; the term is attested as early as 1999 on [[Usenet]] [http://groups.google.com/group/alt.satanism/browse_thread/thread/7f088ebf5126d897/d0a62701fe7be4ca?lnk=st&q=suitheism&rnum=1#d0a62701fe7be4ca]</ref> |
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Self-deification can either involve the expectation of worship by other people, as in the case of [[divine kingship]] in [[imperial cult]]s, or it can be the [[mystical]] notion of identity of the soul or the self with God ([[Unio Mystica]], [[Advaita]]). |
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Modern instances of purported self-deification include: |
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* [[Father Divine]] (d. 1965) |
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* [[Lou de Palingboer]] (d. 1968) |
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* [[Juanita García Peraza]] (d. 1970) |
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* [[Yahweh ben Yahweh]] (d. 2007) |
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* [[Caligula]] |
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* [[Josef Stalin]] |
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* [[Adolf Hitler]] |
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* [[Kim Il-sung]] |
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living: |
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* [[Jehovah Wanyonyi]] (b. c. 1924) |
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* [[Sathya Sai Baba]] (b. c. 1927) |
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* [[Mitsuo Matayoshi]] (b. 1944) |
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* [[Mother Meera]] (b. 1960) |
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* [[Vissarion]] (b. 1961) |
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* [[Grigory Grabovoy]] (b. 1963 |
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* [[Kim Jong-il]] b. 1941 |
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==References== |
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{{reflist}} |
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==See also== |
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* [[Cult of personality]] |
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* [[Divine king]] |
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* [[Divinization]] |
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* [[Godman (Hindu ascetic)]] |
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* [[Hubris]] |
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* [[Imperial cult]] |
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* [[List of people who have been considered deities]] |
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* [[List of people who have claimed to be Jesus Christ]] |
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* [[Messianic complex]] |
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[[Category:Deities]] |
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[[Category:Religion]] |
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[[Category:Theology]] |
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