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Death personification - Death in mythological portrayals | | Death personification - Death in mythological portrayals: Encyclopedia II - Death personification - Death in mythological portrayals | | | Main article: death deity
Several mythologies had gods who embodied Death or aspects of Death:
Ankou (Breton)
Izanami (Shinto)
Mictlantecuhtli (Aztec)
The Morrigan (Irish/Celtic)
Mors (Roman)
Mot (Canaanite)
Odin (Norse)
Osiris (Egyptian)
Anpu (Egyptian)
Shemal (Semitic)
Sielulintu, Kalma, Surma (Finnish)
Thanatos (Greek)
Yama (Hinduism)
Yan Luo (Chinese)
Razgriz (Russian)See also: Death personification, Death personification - Death in mythological portrayals, Death personification - Hindu Mythology, Death personification - In Japan, Death personification - Death angels in religion, Death personification - Form and functions, Death personification - Identical with Satan, Death personification - Scholars and the Angel of Death, Death personification - In Judaism, Death personification - In Islam, Death personification - In Mexico, Death personification - Death as a fictional character, Death personification - List of works using Death as a fictional character, Death personification - Death in popular fiction, Death personification - Movies, Death personification - Television, Death personification - Literature, Death personification - Comics, Death personification - Computer and video games, Death personification - Bibliography | | | Death personification, Death personification - Bibliography, Death personification - Comics, Death personification - Computer and video games, Death personification - Death angels in religion, Death personification - Death as a fictional character, Death personification - Death in mythological portrayals, Death personification - Death in popular fiction, Death personification - Form and functions, Death personification - Hindu Mythology, Death personification - Identical with Satan, Death personification - In Islam, Death personification - In Japan, Death personification - In Judaism, Death personification - In Mexico, Death personification - List of works using Death as a fictional character, Death personification - Literature, Death personification - Movies, Death personification - Scholars and the Angel of Death, Death personification - Television, Afterlife, Angel, Bible, Death, God, Psychopomp, Saint Death, Shinigami, Skull (symbolism), Soul, Symbols of death | | |
| | | Death personification: Encyclopedia II - Death personification - Death in mythological portrayals
Death personification - Death in mythological portrayals
Main article: death deity
Several mythologies had gods who embodied Death or aspects of Death:
- Ankou (Breton)
- Izanami (Shinto)
- Mictlantecuhtli (Aztec)
- The Morrigan (Irish/Celtic)
- Mors (Roman)
- Mot (Canaanite)
- Odin (Norse)
- Osiris (Egyptian)
- Anpu (Egyptian)
- Shemal (Semitic)
- Sielulintu, Kalma, Surma (Finnish)
- Thanatos (Greek)
- Yama (Hinduism)
- Yan Luo (Chinese)
- Razgriz (Russian)
Death personification - Hindu Mythology
In Hindu mythology, the lord of death is called Yama and is one of the rulers of the eight sides. He rides a black buffalo and carries a rope lasso to carry the soul back to his abode. Here, all the accounts of the person's good and bad deeds are stored which allow him to decide where he has to reside, either in hell or heaven.
Death personification - In Japan
In Kojiki, after giving birth to the fire-god Hinokagutsuchi, the goddess Izanami dies from wounds of its fire and enters the perpetual night realm called Yominokuni that the gods thereto retire. After Izanagi, her husband, failed in the attempt to reclaim her from the land of Yomi, in a brief argument with Izanagi, she claimed to take 1000 lives every day signifying her position as the goddess of death.
Another popular death personification is Enma (Yama), also known as Enma Ou and Enma Daiou (Enma King, Enma Great King — translations of Yama Raja). He originated as Yama in Hinduism, later became Yanluo in China, and Enma in Japan. He is from Chinese Buddhism, and before that, from India. Enma rules the underworld, which makes him similar to Hades, and he decides whether someone dead goes to heaven or to hell. A common saying parents use in Japan to scold children is that Enma will cut off their tongue in the afterlife if they lie.
There are also death gods called Shinigami. The Shinigami are more comonly used in Japanese arts and fiction such as anime, and manga. Shinigami are briefly mentioned in the Shinto religion but are said to not acctually exist.
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