From god + -kin, perhaps also from Dutch godeken (“godkin”).
godkin (plural godkins)
- (rare) A little god; a minor or inferior deity; godling.
1895, Edward Washburn Hopkins, The Religions of India, volume 25, page 377:[…] whereas Indra, impotent as he is, hymnless as he is, — save in the oldest portions of the work, — still leads the gods, now godkins, of the ancient pantheon, […]