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  2. Acherontia atropos - Wikipedia

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    The African death's-head hawkmoth (Acherontia atropos) is a large hawk moth, the largest moth in the British Isles [3] and several other regions it inhabits, with a wingspan of 5 in (13 cm) (or 80–120 mm [4]); it is a powerful flier, having sometimes been found on ships far from land. The forewings are a mottled dark brown and pale brown, and ...

  3. Death's-head hawkmoth - Wikipedia

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    Description. The African death's-head hawkmoth (Acherontia atropos) is the largest moth in the British Isles (though not in Africa), with a wingspan of 13 cm (5 in); it is a powerful flier, having sometimes been found on ships far from land. The forewings are a mottled dark brown and pale brown, and the hind wings are orangey-buff with two ...

  4. Symbols of death - Wikipedia

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    Skull and crossbones (disambiguation) Solar symbolSymbol representing the Sun. Symbol – Something that represents an idea, a process, or a physical entity. Theta nigrum – Symbol of death. Totenkopf – German symbol for skull and crossbones. † – Killed in Action – Military casualty classification used for deaths of personnel.

  5. Ascalapha odorata - Wikipedia

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    Ascalapha odorata. The erebid moth Ascalapha odorata, commonly known as the black witch, [1] is a large bat-shaped, dark-colored nocturnal moth, normally ranging from the southern United States to Brazil. Ascalapha odorata is also migratory into Canada and most states of United States. It is the largest noctuoid in the continental United States ...

  6. Butterflies (Van Gogh series) - Wikipedia

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    Oil on canvas. Location. Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam. Butterflies is a series of paintings made by Vincent van Gogh in 1889 and 1890. Van Gogh made at least four paintings of butterflies and one of a moth. The metamorphosis of the caterpillar into a butterfly was symbolic to Van Gogh of men and women's capability for transformation.

  7. Mot (god) - Wikipedia

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    In Ugaritic myth, Mot (spelled mt) is a personification of death.The word belongs to a set of cognates meaning 'death' in other Semitic [4] and Afro-Asiatic languages: Arabic موت mawt; Hebrew מות (mot or mavet; ancient Hebrew muth or maveth/maweth); Maltese mewt; Syriac mautā; Ge'ez mot; Canaanite, Egyptian, Berber, Aramaic, Nabataean, and Palmyrene מות (mwt); Jewish Aramaic ...

  8. The Hireling Shepherd - Wikipedia

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    Location. Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester. The Hireling Shepherd (1851) is a painting by the Pre-Raphaelite artist William Holman Hunt. It represents a shepherd neglecting his flock in favour of an attractive country girl to whom he shows a death's-head hawkmoth. The meaning of the image has been much debated. [1]

  9. Ītzpāpālōtl - Wikipedia

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    Ītzpāpālōtl. Ītzpāpalōtl[a] ("Obsidian Butterfly") was a goddess in Aztec religion. She was a striking skeletal warrior and death goddess and the queen of the Tzitzimimeh. She ruled over the paradise world of Tamōhuānchān, the paradise of victims of infant mortality and the place identified as where humans were created. [1]