Māui's divine ancestor, Tama-nui-te-ra (or Rangi) then takes the child and nourishes it to adolescence.

Thus had arisen the golden age of the divine ancestors.

Demigods are the offspring from a union of a human with a deity, and most royal houses in Antiquity claimed divine ancestors.

My divine ancestors ruled as kings under the Autocrat.

It is said that his divine ancestor was god Nyame, king of the Sky.

Why not look to your divine ancestors for any further instruction?

After death, a deified ruler became a divine ancestor who could help the living.

Other names indicate a divine ancestor.

This aristocracy claimed that all its members were interrelated and descended from some common divine ancestor.

The Merovingian kings riding through the country on an oxcart could then be an imaginative reenactment the blessing journey of their divine ancestor.