...he Kali temples of Kerala. The story is also known as "Darika vadham", or "death of Darika".
...akali; an avatar of [[Kali]] following the design given by Narada. All the gods donated their special weapons, and Bhadrakali succeeded in destroying the d
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Nyarlathotep (the Crawling Chaos) this being is one of the cosmic Outer Gods.
...forms, most of these reputed to be maddeningly horrific. Most of the Outer Gods have their own cults serving them; Nyarlathotep seems to serve these cults
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In Roman and Etruscan mythology, '''Mantus''' and his wife, [[Mania]] were gods of the underworld. They were associated with the city ''Mantua'' (Italian:
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...thology, '''Mictlantecuhtli''' ("lord of Mictlan") was the skeletal god of death who ruled over Mictlan, the underworld, with his wife, Mictlancihuatl.
...tility, health and abundance, alluding to the close symbolic links between death and life.[2]
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'''Galla''' are the seven demons who guard Ereshkigal, the goddess of death and gloom in Kur, the Sumerian underworld.
...world to relentlessly terrorize men and haul them back to the dark abode. Gods and humans alike, on earth or in hell, needed food and drink. But not the G
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Tornarsuk is the head of the protective gods known as the tornat. He is also the master of the whales and seals.
...ly invisible, though they sometimes appear as a light or fire prior to the death of someone.
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*From Orcus' association with death and the underworld, his name came to be used for demons and other underworl
...puter game NetHack as a demon prince found in Gehennom who holds a wand of death. As an enemy of Satan and a king of the underworld, he is leader of one of
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Ages ago, The gods created a new world. They argued over who should rule
But Kognor, The god of death, Was angered by his ways, And so, He intervened. He possessed a young farmb
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...u, the Sun.[1] Humbaba was also the guardian of the Cedar Forest where the gods lived.
...and a monstrous, hairy face. "When he looks at someone, it is the look of death."[2]In various sources, his face is like that of the coiled entrails of men
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...cean, and gathered colossal boulders. He then dropped these on the warring gods and succeeded in stopping them.
...y by José E. Marco (1877-1963) who claimed to have discovered it in 1913), death penalty will be imposed to those who will kill this bird.
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...nd as the world ends he will go out, make war against and triumph over the gods. And he will burn the whole world with fire" (Gimlé Gylfaginning, iv).</bl
...e world.". Surtur is the being who cleanses Asgard with fire after all the gods have fallen in battle at Ragnarok, the periodic destruction of Asgard. Only
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...logy]], the '''Gigantes''' were a race of giants, who defied the olympians gods.
...ttempt to end the Olympian reign. They tested the strength of the Olympian gods in what is known as the ''Gigantomachia'' or Gigantomachy.
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According to Pamela Allardice, they were feared more greatly than death itself. She describes Alû as "a horrid phantom of a leprous man with an ar
* Allardice, Pamela. Myths, Gods and Fantasy: A Sourcebook. Dorset, Prism Press, 1991.
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...Krishna, was destined to be killed by Krishna. In an attempt to avoid his death, Kamsa sent a series of demons to Gokula, where Krishna was staying with hi
...a for slaying the horse-demon with such ease, by whose neighing alone, the gods were abandoning heaven. He further prophesies the great deeds that Krishna
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...en. This "Boney-Thing" might have been one of the important skeletal death gods of the Classic Period depicted dancing on Maya ceramics. The way of the pow
...nd constellations were probably seen as the wayob of the ancestors and the gods.
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...Alpine pastures and buried it at the foot of a linden tree. To avenge the death of her friend, she summon all good men to the battlefield of Noshiq.
*Lurker, Manfred (2004). The Routledge dictionary of gods and goddesses, devils and demons
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There are various versions of Python's birth and death at the hands of Apollo. In the earliest, the Homeric Hymn to Apollo, little
* Guthrie, William Keith Chambers, The Greeks and their Gods, 1955.
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...Their heads touch the sky, their "terror is awesome" and their "glance is death".
...ated by the mother goddess Tiamat in order to wage war against the younger gods for the betrayal of her mate Apsu. Deadly warriors, they could fight either
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After his death he was deified as '''Fatuus''', and a small cult formed around his person i
...f Picus and Canens. He was then revered as the god '''Fatuus''' after his death, worshipped in a sacred forest outside what is now Tivoli, Italy, but had b
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*[http://www.scns.com/earthen/other/seanachaidh/godaztec.html ''The Gods and Goddesses of the Aztecs'']
...Toltec mythology]] [[Category:Psychopomps]] [[Category:Animal]] [[Category:Death]]
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During the battle between the Gigantes and the Olympian gods, Enceladus was disabled by a spear thrown by the goddess Athena. He was bur
...tyr play ''Cyclops'' the minor god Silenus claims to have dealt Enceladus' death blow, but this was perhaps intended by the author as a vain drunken boast,
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..., as maggots were thought to, in the dead flesh (i.e. earth or stone). The gods later gifted them with intelligence and human-like appearance.
...forge the magic sword [[Tyrfing]], the dwarves cursed it so it would bring death to Svafrlami and cause three evil deeds. In ''[[Ynglingatal]]'' it is told
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...efforts to kill his son Prahlada (a devotee of Vishnu) and his subsequent death at the hands of [[Narasimha]]. His tale depicts the futility of desiring po
After his brother's death at the hands of the Varaha avatar of Vishnu, [[Hiranyaksha]]'s brother Hira
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...or a boon that would enable him to see, and that he would not be killed by gods, demons, or humans, or even by the great Vishnu himself. Brahma was in a fi
...woman who is like a mother unto me, let that be the hour appointed for my death.
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...the metaphorical thread of life of every mortal and immortal from birth to death (and beyond).
...ten depicted as old, ugly and unmerciful, they are most honoured among the gods because they distribute justly and have a share in every home.
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...heir children in the fire as sacrifices to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim." - 2 Kings 17:31. This often leads to the concept that child
Like other pagan gods, Adramelech is considered a demon in Judeo-Christian tradition. Adramelech
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...race with superhuman strength, described as standing in opposition to the gods, although they frequently mingled with or were even married to these, both
...light, and in comfort their homes do not differ greatly from those of the gods.
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.... Seeing one's own ghostly double or [[doppelgänger]] is a related omen of death.
...fear of ghosts and other supernatural beings, such as spirits and [[Deity|gods]], has been said by some scholars to be a mechanism of social control. See
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...erleth who attempted to categorize and expand the mythos after Lovecraft's death.
...oke, propagating among the writers of his circle and wearing thin upon his death. Derleth seems to have not understood this and believed that Lovecraft want
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...that continuously strive to undermine the divine order established by the gods as related by numerous accounts from Hindu mythology. Hence, his name refle
...by the male buffalo. Stricken by grief, the she buffalo chose to go to her death on the funeral pyre prepared for her husband. Before that took place howeve
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[[Image:Apis.jpg|thumb|Image from the Theban Papyrus of Ani from the Book of Death.]]
...ich are closely linked with kingship (“strong bull” was a common title for gods and pharaohs). Sometimes the Apis bull was pictured with the sun-disk betwe
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...netherworld Patalas and were always in constant opposition to the Devas or gods. Through the performance of various harsh and severe penances, this Asura
...es, Shumba and Nishumba subsequently commenced similar attacks on other gods like Kubera, Yama, Varuna and Vayu, successfully routing them and claiming
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...eath god" or "God of Death") is a term to describe the personification of death in Japanese modern culture.
...t often). However, Shinigami may also be used more loosely to refer to any death deity.
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...ver the wicked spirits and the chaotic forces of nature. His companion was Death.
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...times. They may have once been believed to be the beings who preceded the gods, similar to the Greek [[Titans]].
...sent the gods of human civilization. Alternatively, they may represent the gods of a proposed pre-Goidelic population of Ireland
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:Her hand is a net, her embrace is death
:The daughter of Heaven is one of the Gods, her brothers
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...ble to capture the horse by using a golden bridle, a gift from Athena. The gods then gave him Pegasus for killing the monster Chimera but when he attempted
...d opinion of his greatness, and he attempted to fly on Pegasus to join the gods on Olympus. An enraged Zeus sent an insect to annoy Pegasus, causing the ho
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...", Gregory, Lady Augusta. "Part I Book IV: His Three Calls to Cormac" in ''Gods and Fighting Men'' (Colyn Smyth, Buckinghamshire, 1903) [http://www.sacred-
...ise of a warrior who told him he came from a land where old age, sickness, death, decay, and falsehood were unknown (the [[Underworld|Otherworld]] was also
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...patron of pregnant women, she was also linked to childbirth, marriage and death. Her role is similar to Lakhsmi, a Hindu goddess.
*Greimas, Algirdas Julien (1992). Of Gods and Men. Studies in Lithuanian Mythology. Indiana University Press. p. 111.
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...fire-sacrifice, called yagna, but personified are also seen as devas. All gods taken together are worshipped as the Vishvedevas. Varuna, identified by som
...va. Vayu or the Lord of the wind is an example of an important deva. Also, Death is personified as the deva Yama.
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...hat dwarfs may have originated as nature spirits or beings associated with death, or as a mixture of concepts.
...the flesh of the primal being Ymir before being gifted with reason by the gods.
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...to separate them from the Norns, the similar age-old fates, older than the gods, of a separate Indo-European tradition.
...orrèd shears", someone on Earth died. Her Roman equivalent was ''Mors'' ('Death').
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...He is described as the "contriver of all fraud". He mixed freely with the gods for a long time, even becoming [[Odin]]'s blood brother. Despite much resea
...igated badness as a kind of celestial con man. He would often bail out the gods after playing tricks on them, as illustrated by the myth in which he shears
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The two known gods of the derro are [[Diirinka]] and [[Diinkarazan]].
*Gygax, Gary. ''Sea of Death'' (New Infinities, 1987).
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...ation during rituals. Most similar to the veve are the drawings of zemi or gods of the Taino religion.
...generally the older, more beneficent spirits, and are associated with the gods of Africa. Their traditional colour is white (as opposed to the specific co
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...k mythology]], '''Thanatos''', meaning "death") was the personification of death (Roman equivalent: [[Mors]]), as well as a minor figure in Greek mythology.
...ded in chaining Thanatos up with his own shackles, thereby prohibiting the death of any mortal. Eventually Ares released Thanatos and handed Sisyphus over
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...r them, the Vision Serpent was direct link between the spirit realm of the gods and the physical world. (Schele and Friedel, 1990:395).
...ious event involved bloodletting because it provided a medium by which the gods could be called upon to witness and actually participate in the ceremony. S
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...ntually, Daksha held a yagna (a ritualistic sacrifice) and invited all the gods, but not Sati and Shiva. Sati came to the yagna alone, where Daksha publicl
...le of supporting the universe. You are called Kala-Bhairava, for even Time-Death is terrified of you." He ordered him to chastise Brahma, promising him in r
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...with a working silver one and he was reinstated as king. Balor, the god of death, then killed him. However, Dian Cecht's son Miach was dissatisfied with the
...them." Goibniu, Creidhne and Luchta are referred to as Trí Dé Dána ("three gods of craftsmanship"), and the Dagda's name is interpreted in medieval texts a
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...ian Pantheon of classical [[Greek Mythology]], '''Hêra''' was queen of the Gods and Goddesses, as well as wife and sister of [[Zeus]]. Many of the older te
...ses. In her hand she may bear the pomegranate, emblem of fertile blood and death and a substitute for the narcotic capsule of the opium poppy (Ruck and Stap
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