From sailing days when officers who use to be deck hands were asked how they got there job they replied "I climbed up the hawsepipe" (hawsepipe: the pipe that an anchor rope passes through)
a being of extreme physical power and intellect. often confused for gods...demi god would be more acutate. in fiction kryptonians and sayains are often based on real world hawses. it is tbought zeus odin and lugh were all based on a hawse.