At Thebes in Egypt a woman slept in the temple of Ammon as the consort of the god, and, like the human wife of Bel at Babylon, she was said to have no commerce with a man. In Egyptian texts she is often mentioned as "the divine consort," and usually she was no less a personage than the Queen of Egypt herself.
— James Frazer, The Golden Bough, "Chapter Twelve: The Sacred Marriage."
This is when two
god-like characters (be they
actual gods or merely
extremely powerful) become a couple.
Might be a
Battle Couple. For the other type of "couple," see
Super Couple.
Marriage To A God has only one side of the relationship like this.
Examples:
Anime
- Tenchi Muyo Ryoohki Washu and Sasami/Tsunami are two of the Goddesses that made the universe. Tenchi is the avatar of the god that made the Goddesses. Apply Tenchi Solution and voila.
Comic Books
Film
- Hancock deals with the aftermath, as the titular character recovers his memory and meets his ex. Who also claimed to be his sister.
Live Action TV
- Two Qs mated in an episode of Star Trek The Next Generation.
- Tales From The Darkside episode "Let the Games Begin". An angel and a devil have a contest over who gets a dead person's soul. At the end they give into their growing attraction to each other and get together.
Mythology
- The Greek gods were always hooking up with one another, the most popular pairing being Aphrodite and Ares. Of course, Aphrodite was married to Hephaestus, so it became pretty funny when he would catch them in the act with an unbreakable iron net.
- Let's not forget Zeus/EVERYBODY.
- That does include his daughter Persephone, by the way.
Webcomics
- Two characters in Antiheroes are the twin sons of a God Couple, specifically a powerful fiend and an equally powerful celestial. The in-laws were not happy.
Video Games
- The Elder Scrolls Morrowind: Vivec/Almalexia. It didn't last long...on the godly scale of time, that is.
- Sotha Sil/Almalexia coupled for longer, probably because it was more intermittent due to Sotha's reclusive Mad Scientist nature. Almalexia did a lot of coupling, but considered Nerevar to be her lover long after his death. And Nerevar/Almalexia were a political God Couple while they were still mortal.
