...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:
[[Category:Death deities]]
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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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