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  2. List of death deities - Wikipedia

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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

  3. Mors (mythology) - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. List of Roman deities - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Category:Death goddesses - Wikipedia

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  6. Libitina - Wikipedia

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    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]

  7. Keres - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. Morta (mythology) - Wikipedia

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    In Roman mythology, Morta was the goddess of death. [1] She was believed to preside over infants who died. [2] Aulus Gellius understood her name to be the similar as Morea. Morta’s name most likely meant fate. [3]

  9. Mania (deity) - Wikipedia

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    In ancient Etruscan and Roman mythology, Mania (Etruscan: 𐌀𐌉𐌍𐌀𐌌), also spelled Manea, was a goddess of the dead, spirits and chaos: she was said to be the mother of ghosts, the undead, and other spirits of the night, as well as the Lares and the Manes.