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Owuo, Akan God of Death and Destruction, and the Personification of death. Name means death in the Akan language. Name means death in the Akan language. Asase Yaa , one half of an Akan Goddess of the barren places on Earth, Truth and is Mother of the Dead
In ancient Roman myth and literature, Mors is the personification of death equivalent to the Greek Thanatos. [citation needed] The Latin noun for "death," mors, genitive mortis, is of feminine gender, but surviving ancient Roman art is not known to depict death as a woman. [1] Latin poets, however, are bound by the grammatical gender of the ...
Quirinus, Sabine god identified with Mars; Romulus, the founder of Rome, was deified as Quirinus after his death. Quirinus was a war god and a god of the Roman people and state, and was assigned a flamen maior; he was one of the Archaic Triad gods. Quiritis, goddess of motherhood. Originally Sabine or pre-Roman, she was later equated with Juno.
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Roman mythology is the body of myths of ancient Rome as represented in the literature and visual arts of the Romans, and is a form of Roman folklore. "Roman mythology" may also refer to the modern study of these representations, and to the subject matter as represented in the literature and art of other cultures in any period.
These are a series of incomplete lists of unusual deaths, unique or extremely rare circumstances of death recorded throughout history, noted as being unusual by multiple sources. The death of Aeschylus , killed by a tortoise dropped onto his head by an eagle , illustrated in the 15th-century Florentine Picture-Chronicle by Baccio Baldini [ 1 ]
When a person died, the treasury of the temple collected a coin as a "death tax" supposed to have been established by Servius Tullius. [8] During a plague in 65 AD, 30,000 deaths were recorded at the temple. [9] Livy notes two occasions when the death toll exceeded Libitina's capacity. [10]
Their Roman equivalents were Letum (“death”) or the Tenebrae (“shadows”). Hunger, pestilence, madness, nightmare have each a sprite behind them; are all sprites," J.E. Harrison observed (Harrison 1903, p 169), but two Keres might not be averted, and these, which emerged from the swarm of lesser ills, were Old Age and Death.