Deicide

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Homicide

Murder

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Assassination · Child murder Consensual homicide Contract killing · Honour killing Human sacrifice Lust murder · Lynching Mass murder · Murder-suicide Proxy murder  · Lonely hearts killer Serial killer · Spree killer Torture murder · Feticide Double murder  · Misdemeanor murder Crime of passion  · Internet homicide

Manslaughter

in English law Negligent homicide Vehicular homicide

Non-criminal homicide

Note: Varies by jurisdiction

Justifiable homicide Capital punishment Human sacrifice Feticide

By victim or victims

Suicide

Family Familicide · Avunculicide Prolicide (Filicide • Infanticide • Neonaticide) Fratricide / Sororicide Mariticide / Uxoricide Parricide (Matricide • Patricide)

Other Genocide / Democide Gendercide Omnicide Regicide / Tyrannicide

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For the American death metal band, see Deicide (band)

Deicide is the killing of a god, goddess, or similar deity.

Etymology

The word derives from medieval Latin dei- ("god"), and -cida, from the verb caedere ("to cut down"). As with some other words that share the same suffix — suicide, homicide, patricide, etc. — the word can refer either to the act or to the person who commits the act.

In History

Jesus, according to most Christian denominations, was crucified some time between the years 26 and 36^{[citation needed]}. Christian theology holds that Jesus was the second member of the Trinity and the ones responsible for the crucifixion were guilty of deicide, knowingly or not. The question of this responsibility has been controversial within Christianity, and sometimes a cause of antisemitism.

Other examples

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• The death of gods is prominent in the DC Comics Universe with the onslaught of Final Crisis and the twilight of the Fourth World. The Guardians of the Universe even gave their Green Lantern officers a code (1011) for an occurrence of deicide.
• In the Star Trek universe, the Klingon religion held that when the gods created Kortar, the first Klingon, he killed his gods and burned their paradise to ashes.
• The plot of the popular comic book Preacher involved tracking God down and making him account for his actions. By the end of the series, a supporting character called The Saint of Killers, actually kills God.
• In the video game God of War, the anti-hero, Kratos, is on a quest to murder the god of war, Ares.
• The Avatar Trilogy published in the Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting of Dungeons and Dragons details the adventures of a group of adventurers as they deal with a crisis titled The Time of Troubles, where the Gods (each every one of each and every social and racial pantheon) have been thrown from their realms in the Heavens and forced to take an Avatar, the mortal body of one worshiper. Over the course of the trilogy, several major gods, as well as numerous minor gods and demi-gods are slain, including Myrkul, Bane (several times), Baal, Mystra, and Torm. Some at the hands of other gods, others at the hands of mortals.
• The Megami Tensei video games often depict the main protagonists fighting against and slaying various deities that act as final bosses.
• The main antagonist of the Everworld series of books is a being known as Ka Anor, the god of an insect-like alien population, who requires other gods as sacrifice.
• In Neil Gaiman's novel American Gods, older gods such as Odin, Anansi, and Loki are pitted against the new age American Gods, the gods of cellphones, television, credit cards etc. Many gods from both sides die in the process of their war.

See also

• God is dead