No longer referring the boons of his reign to their transcendent source,
the emperor breaks the stereoptic vision which it is his role to sustain.
He is no longer the mediator between the two worlds.

Man's perspective flattens to include only the human term of the equation,
and the experience of a supernal power immediately fails.
The upholding idea of the community is lost.
Force is all that binds it.

The emperor becomes the tyrant ogre,
the Usurper from whom the world is now to be saved.

– Hero with a Thousand Faces, Joseph Campbell