demigoddess

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Since her comic book debut in 1941, Wonder Woman has been recognized as an Amazon princess, a demigoddess and an emissary and ambassador from her homeland.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 2, 2022

Streep sharing a name with her character is a fourth-wall-breaking genuflection to her demigoddess presence, which might alone persuade us that it was appropriate to revive this story.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 9, 2019

In “Circe,” Miller weaves a story about the demigoddess with whom Odysseus tarried on his way home to Penelope.

From Washington Post • Feb. 16, 2018

The reliefs are truly exceptional, depicting religious and cultic scenes, priests, and what appears to be a demigoddess or a high-priestess.

From BBC • Sep. 28, 2017

Here the name Moana-nui-ka-lehua seems to be used to indicate the sea as well as the demigoddess, whose dominion it was.

From Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula by Emerson, Nathaniel Bright