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In Greek mythology, Thanatos (UK: / ˈ θ æ n ə t ɒ s /; [2] Ancient Greek: Θᾰ́νᾰτος, Thánatos, pronounced in Ancient Greek: "Death", [3] from θνῄσκω thnēskō "(I) die, am dying" [4] [5]) was the personification of death. He was a minor figure in Greek mythology, often referred to but rarely appearing in person.
The mythology or religion of most cultures incorporate a god of death or, more frequently, a divine being closely associated with death, an afterlife, or an underworld. They are often amongst the most powerful and important entities in a given tradition, reflecting the fact that death, like birth , is central to the human experience.
In Greek mythology, the Keres (/ˈkɪriːz/; Ancient Greek: Κῆρες) were female death-spirits. They were the goddesses who personified violent death and who were drawn to bloody deaths on battlefields. [citation needed] Although they were present during death and dying, they did not have the power to kill. All they could do was wait and ...
While the Greek gods are immortal and unaffected by aging, the mortality of humans forces them to move through the stages of life, before reaching death. [2] The group of figures referred to as "heroes" (or " demigods "), unique to Greek religion and mythology, are (after the time of Homer ) individuals who have died but continue to exert power ...
Sosipolis (god), a native god at Elis, son of the goddess Eileithyia Syceus ( Συκεύς ), god whom Gaia turned into a fig tree to help him escape from Zeus. Telesphorus (Τελεσφόρος), god of convalescence, who "brought to fulfillment" recuperation from illness or injury
Herbert Jennings Rose, Handbook of Greek Mythology, 1928. Carl Ruck and Danny Staples, The World of Classical Myth, 1994. William Smith, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, 1870, article on Moira, ancientlibrary.com; R. G. Wunderlich (1994). The secret of Crete. Efstathiadis group, Athens pp. 290–291, 295–296.
This is an index of lists of mythological figures from ancient Greek religion and mythology. List of Greek deities; List of mortals in Greek mythology; List of Greek legendary creatures; List of minor Greek mythological figures; List of Trojan War characters; List of deified people in Greek mythology; List of Homeric characters
Greek death goddesses (3 C, 8 P) L. Life-death-rebirth goddesses (5 C, 11 P) P. Persephone (7 C, 21 P) U. Underworld goddesses (6 C, 55 P) Pages in category "Death ...