Home›Kings›All KingsBrowse ByAll KingsRulers whose kingship belongs to the religious record and not only to the political one: David and Solomon of Israel, Gilgamesh of Uruk and Arthur of the Britons. They sit at different distances from history. David and Solomon are treated as historical by the scriptures that name them, Gilgamesh appears in a Sumerian king list before he appears in an epic, and Arthur survives in legend and in chronicles written long after the events they describe.FactsLearn MoreAll KingsSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsOverviewWhat Defines This GroupingWell-attestedRulers whose reigns carry religious weight: anointed kings of the biblical narrative, sacred monarchs, and legendary sovereigns of a golden age. Sacred kingship is a genuine comparative topic, but the grounds on which a king counts as sacred, covenant and anointing, descent from a god, or legend rather than record, are not the same. 2DirectoryCategoryWell-attestedFigures 1Learn MoreThe Kings This group gathers kings, the royal figures of sacred narrative, rulers whose reigns carry religious weight, whether as anointed servants of God, as sacred monarchs, or as legendary sovereigns of a tradition's golden age. The browser will find the kingly figures the atlas classes here, such as the anointed kings of the biblical narrative and the sacred rulers of other traditions. The entries describe each within their story.All KingsFilter Results50 entriesPlace of OriginAllAksum (2)Ancient Israel (5)Ancient Rome (2)Arabia (1)Britain (1)China (5)Egypt (4)Ethiopia (1)Greece (4)India (2)Japan (3)Judea (2)Mesoamerica (1)Mesopotamia (2)Persia (1)Scandinavia (1)Scotland (1)Tibet (1)HistoricityAllHistorically attested (25)Historicity debated (5)Legendary: known from narrative tradition, not the historical record (15)Not a historical person: a divine or other-than-human being (6)TraditionAllAncient Egyptian Religion (3)Ancient Greek Religion (4)Aztec Religion (1)Buddhism (7)Celtic Paganism (1)Christianity (9)Confucianism (3)Hinduism (3)Islam (1)Judaism (8)Latter Day Saint Movement (1)Mesopotamian Religion (1)Norse Paganism (1)Roman Religion (2)Shinto (2)Zoroastrianism (2)Office HeldAllEmperor of Tibet from about 755 to about 797 (1)First king of Israel, anointed by Samuel (1)King of Aksum in the middle of the fourth century (1)King of Judah, reigning at the end of the eighth century BCE (1)King of Kosala, ruling at Ayodhya (1)King of Siam from 1868 to 1910, the fifth of the Chakri line (1)Tetrarch of Galilee and Perea, 4 BCE to 39 CE (1)Veneration StatusAllActively venerated in a living tradition (30)Historically attested; no continuous cult (6)No Cult Attested (8)Revered InAllAncient Egyptian Religion (4)Ancient Greek Religion (2)Ancient Mesopotamian Religion (1)Ancient Roman Religion (1)Buddhism (8)Christianity (12)Confucianism (1)Hinduism (1)Islam (3)Judaism (8)Mesoamerican Religion (1)Paganism (2)Shinto (2)Zoroastrianism (2)Lifespan Start YearAll-1112 (1)-1111 (1)-1010 (1)-970 (1)-753 (1)-752 (1)-741 (1)-640 (1)-156 (1)-74 (1)-73 (1)-20 (1)250 (1)464 (1)543 (1)701 (1)1214 (1)1316 (1)1360 (1)1500 (1)1552 (1)1566 (1)1737 (1)1853 (1)1892 (1)1901 (1)Child OfAllBathsheba (1)Cronus (2)Geb (1)Herod the Great (1)Isis (1)King David (1)Osiris (1)Rhea (2)Manner Of DeathAllAssassinated (3)Died by suicide (1)Died of natural causes (10)Disputed (3)Killed in battle (3)Taken up without dying, as the tradition holds (1)GenderAllMale (49)CanonizationAllFormally canonized (2)Not part of any canonization process (2)Pre-Congregation: venerated before any formal process existed (1)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 50Abgar of EdessaKingsCharles V, Holy Roman EmperorKingsChulalongkornKingsDasharathaKingsEmperor OjinKingsEmperor ShomuKingsEmperor Wu of HanKingsEmperor Wu of LiangKingsEmperor Wu of Northern ZhouKingsEzana of AksumKingsFa NgumKingsFahd of Saudi ArabiaKingsFeridunKingsGebKingsGebre MeskelKingsGilgameshKingsHaile Selassie IKingsHerod AntipasKingsHerod the GreatKingsHezekiahKingsHirohitoKingsHorusKingsJames VI and IKingsJosiahKingsKing ArthurKingsKing BenjaminKingsKing DavidKingsKing VirataKingsKing Wen of ZhouKingsLouis IX of FranceKingsMahabaliKingsNimrodKingsNuma PompiliusKingsOdinKingsOedipusKingsOsirisKingsPoseidonKingsRaKingsRama I of SiamKingsRomulusKingsRudolf IIKingsSaulKingsSolomonKingsTantalusKingsTiridates III of ArmeniaKingsTopiltzin Ce Acatl QuetzalcoatlKingsTrisong DetsenKingsVishtaspaKingsYongle EmperorKingsZeusKingsSources1. Divinity Atlas Directory Taxonomy, First Edition Category Treetier 12. Encyclopedia of Religiontier 1Mircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.), Macmillan Reference, 2005Entry Kingship, sacredView the SourceDivinity Atlas Directory Prose, First Edition Category Descriptionstier 1Comments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.