Fantasy genealogy

Fantasy genealogies are ical, or d s, usually to enhance the status of the descendant.

Many claimed ancestries are considered by modern scholars to be fabrications, especially the claims of kings and emperors who trace their ancestry to gods or the founders of their civilization. Such pedigrees also have a moral message to their subjects, allies and enemies. Some national epics or holy scriptures associate success, blessing and good with the "rightful dynasty" and wars, catastrophes and diseases with usurper rulers. In this moralism, fictional genealogies have analogies with, and.

For example, chroniclers of s traced the ancestry of their kings back to the. If such descents were true, would be a descendant of Woden, via the kings of.

Japanese imperial dynasty is mythically descended from Omikami, sun goddess.

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