He appears to have believed himself a deity, or at least sought to deify himself. For "deity" and "deify", only solid styling (no hyphen or diaeresis) is normative. If they don't know what to reject, they may deify it. The new Emperor immediately ordered the senate to deify Gallienus. He was succeeded by Domitian, whose first act as emperor was to deify his brother. He immediately asked the Senators to deify Aurelian, before arresting and executing Aurelian's murderers. Unbeknowest to all, though, the bacchanalia was the final ingredient Xenagos needed to deify himself. Defectors have been quoted as saying that North Korean schools deify both father and son.