A fact from Son of Heaven appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 19 May 2014 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that the Japanese Son of Heaven rules as a divine descendant of the sun goddess Amaterasu?
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I’m a little confused here. The article calls the title adopted from Qin dynasty onwards the "secular imperial title of the Son of Heaven" which I surmise is meant in opposition to "the sacred monarchical title" tianzi. But huángdì literally stands for something like "Magnificent Divine Lord" or as some scholars prefer a "Thearch". Shi made the imperial title specifically in allusion to Chinese mythological rulers who were seen as deities and/or deified ancestors. In this sense, I don't see how huángdì is a title less sacred/more secular than that of tianzi (or, say, Gaozong's tianhuáng the "Heavenly Majesty"). Juraj103 (talk) 22:17, 27 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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