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== [[Literature]] ==
* [[Older Than Feudalism]]: In ''[[The Bible]]'', Barnabas and Paul are briefly worshiped as Jupiter and Mercury by the people of the city of Lystra. (They obviously did not approve...)
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** Unfortunately it backfires {{spoiler|because Louis can't keep a straight face.}}
* Mildly subverted in ''[[Dune]]'' with the Bene Gesserit's Missionaria Protectiva, wherein false legends were implanted in various cultures all over the galaxy by a cult specifically so that its members could fulfill them to take advantage of the natives in an emergencies. {{spoiler|Then ''[[Deconstruction|massively subverted]]'' when Arrakis' version of the Missionaria Protectiva turns out to be ''right''.}}
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* One Marra in ''[[The Madness Season]]'' poses as a god on a primitive colony planet. When he is finally "defeated", he even does a convincing impersonation of the Burning Bush.
* In ''[[John Carter of Mars]]'', there are several levels of this. The Therns (White Martians) present themselves as gods to the other Martian races, in spite of actually being only technologically advanced and strategically-placed mortals (though, judging from the Thern princess Phaidor, at least some of them buy into their own hype). The Therns in turn worship the goddess Issus, who is actually only a very manipulative, very evil old woman- whether she simply deified herself or impersonated a pre-existing god isn't elaborated on, as she's been in the role for time-out-of-mind.
* In [[Orson Scott Card]]'s ''[[Pastwatch:
** One of the first things Hunahpu does is, essentially, call the bloodthirsty and powerful (in the minds of the villagers) Aztec god Huitzilopochtli his bitch.
* In the novel ''Sixth Column'' by [[Robert Heinlein]], scientists pretend to be priests of a god called Mota (atoM) and some others to conceal their new super-science and overthrow an invasion of America.
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== [[Web Original]] ==
* The Archai originally suffered from being inadvertently treated as gods by modosophonts, in ''[[
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