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And it's King decides on a new title for himself because the title of king is not nearly

fancy enough.

So he pulls back from thousands of years even before him to these demigod rulers.

So he takes the title of Huang and the title of D, both of which are references to these

two different gods or demigods and puts them together

into Huang Di, which becomes divine sovereign or divine thearch, or we translated it over to

emperor.

Kings are always like that.

I can't imagine, like, getting in a position of leadership and just being, and there's

been like, call me Allah Jesus from now on.

Yeah, exactly.

I'm the official Allah Jesus of this tech company or whatever.

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