godhead

mastery
/ˈɡɒd.hɛd/nounname

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What does 'godhead' mean in this sentence?

It was at Fort Yukon that White Fang saw his first white men. As compared with the Indians he had known, they were to him another race of beings, a race of superior gods. They impressed him as possessing superior power, and it is on power that godhead rests.