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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TheAuldGrump" data-source="post: 3726663" data-attributes="member: 6957">Look up the cult of the Emperor and Roman imperial history - it was assumed that the emperor ascended upon death and joined the gods. And since you use the Latinate rather than Hellenic versions of the gods and Olympus this is something that should be considered.  Some of the Egyptian religions worked the same way. Apotheosis upon death was not as uncommon as all that. And then there is Finnish mythology (Kalevala) , where some of the heroes could beat the gods two falls out of three. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> Depending on the religion apotheosis is not all that uncommon.My personal dodge is that belief creates gods, and that the being created by said belief may be shaped by a mortal person, but that the deity so created is a separate entity from said mortal. So when Bob dies, if there are enough true believers in Bobism then there will ascend the deity Bob, who is shaped more by the believers views of Bob than by the Historical figure. If his believers know that Bob never told lies then the deity Bob will be unable to lie, even if mortal Bob was actually an expert lier, who never got caught.The Auld Grump. tired, go bed now.</blockquote>