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Achlys, goddess who symbolizes the mist of death. Goddess of poisons, personification of misery and sadness. Apollo, god of diseases; Atropos, one of the moirai, who cut the thread of life. Charon, a daimon who acted as ferryman of the dead. Erebus, the primordial god of darkness, his mists encircled the underworld and filled the hollows of the ...
Kali (/ ˈ k ɑː l iː /; Sanskrit: काली, IAST: Kālī), also called Kalika, is a major goddess in Hinduism, primarily associated with time, death and destruction. Kali is also connected with transcendental knowledge and is the first of the ten Mahavidyas , a group of goddesses who provide liberating knowledge.
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In her 1948 work on death in Norse mythology and religion, The Road to Hel, Hilda Ellis Davidson argued that the description of Hel as a goddess in surviving sources appeared to be literary personification, the word hel generally being "used simply to signify death or the grave", which she states "naturally lends itself to personification by ...
Devotees praying to Santa Muerte in Mexico. Santa Muerte can be translated into English as either "Saint Death" or "Holy Death", although R. Andrew Chesnut, Ph.D. in Latin American history and professor of Religious studies, believes that the former is a more accurate translation because it "better reveals" her identity as a folk saint.
Statue in Druid Ridge Cemetery, near Baltimore, Maryland, that represents the Greek fate Clotho The Triumph of Death, or The Three Fates. Flemish tapestry (probably Brussels, ca. 1510–1520). Victoria and Albert Museum, London Clotho, 1893 by Camille Claudel. Clotho (/ ˈ k l oʊ θ oʊ /; Greek: Κλωθώ) or Klotho, is a mythological figure.
The Maya death gods (also Ah Puch, Ah Cimih, Ah Cizin, Hun Ahau, Kimi, or Yum Kimil) known by a variety of names, are two basic types of death gods who are respectively represented by the 16th-century Yucatec deities Hunhau and Uacmitun Ahau mentioned by Spanish Bishop Diego de Landa. Hunhau is the lord of the Underworld.
The Acropolis at Athens (1846) by Leo von Klenze.Athena's name probably comes from the name of the city of Athens. [4] [5]Athena is associated with the city of Athens. [4] [6] The name of the city in ancient Greek is Ἀθῆναι (Athȇnai), a plural toponym, designating the place where—according to myth—she presided over the Athenai, a sisterhood devoted to her worship. [5]