For People Who Think There Was No Historical Jesus

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But we don't know how many steps there were in that process. Ignoring the xtian writings ( biased and edited as they are) we seem to go from chrestus to christus to "jesus" itself a derivation of yeshua meaning "god is salvation."

This just leaves a couple of references by pagan Roman historians which may or may not be genuine. The main reason why Christians are supposed to have got up Roman noses is their refusal to worship other gods etc. If they hadn't been so obstinate, nobody would have cared about their beliefs because what was one more deity associated with Bacchus/Dionysys and Osiris?

Once the Christians really got going they wanted everything - divine father, virgin mother, sacrificial king, resurrection, anything they thought fitted from the cult of Mithras plus a biography which fulfilled Old Testament prophecies. If there ever was a real man buried under that lot it's impossible to find him now.

If we are talking about Antoninus Pius, then he had a really weird relationship with a lot of different people.

He wasn't the same person as Antinous, though. Hadrian adopted Antoninus who became the emperor after Hadrian's death. Antinous was a Bithynian youth who was Hadrian's favourite and he was drowned in the Nile. I'm guessing that the only reason why he's remembered at all is because he happened to die while Hadrian still fancied him.

Will end with three more humans who were given divine status - there's more but I can't be bothered looking up further details about them.

Prince Philip is lucky because he wasn't required to die first.

Just how the tribe even began to think in terms of Prince Philip being a God is lost somewhere in the mists of time, but it is believed the legend started in the early 1970s when, as a simple warrior, Chief Jack was one of the paddlers in a war canoe that greeted the Royal yacht Britannia when the Prince and the Queen visited the New Hebrides.
'I saw him standing on the deck in his white uniform and I knew then that he was the true Messiah,' Chief Jack told the Mail in the months before his death.

Imhotep became a medical deity.

(born 27th century bce, Memphis, Egypt), vizier, sage, architect, astrologer, and chief minister to Djoser (reigned 2630–2611 bce), the second king of Egypt’s third dynasty, who was later worshipped as the god of medicine in Egypt and in Greece, where he was identified with the Greek god of medicine, Asclepius. He is considered to have been the architect of the step pyramid built at the necropolis of Ṣaqqārah in the city of Memphis. The oldest extant monument of hewn stone known to the world, the pyramid consists of six steps and attains a height of 200 feet (61 metres).

George Washington got adopted by Shintoism.

George Washington has been included in the pantheon of kami (saijin) worshipped at Hawaiian shrines, and some shrines even fly the Stars and Stripes, but that does not necessarily mean that the orientation of Hawaiian shrines' itself has been Americanized.