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In religions where a single god is the primary object of worship, the representation of death is usually that god's antagonist, and the struggle between the two is central to the folklore of the culture. In such dualistic models, the primary deity usually represents good, and the death god embodies evil.
The term "dying god" is associated with the works of James Frazer, [4] Jane Ellen Harrison, and their fellow Cambridge Ritualists. [16] At the end of the 19th century, in their The Golden Bough [4] and Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion, Frazer and Harrison argued that all myths are echoes of rituals, and that all rituals have as their primordial purpose the manipulation of natural ...
Sigbin – is a creature in Philippine mythology (Philippines) Sky Fox (mythology), a celestial nine-tailed Fox Spirit that is 1,000 years old and has golden fur (Chinese) Shug Monkey – dog/monkey creature found in Cambridgeshire (Britain) Tanuki – Japanese raccoon dog, legends claim is a shapeshifting trickster (Japan)
Pages in category "Life-death-rebirth gods" The following 25 pages are in this category, out of 25 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Adonis;
The naga primarily represents rebirth, death and mortality, due to its casting of its skin and being symbolically "reborn". Hindus associate the naga with the deities Shiva and Vishnu. Shesha is one of the two mounts of Vishnu, upon which the deity rests. Vasuki is a serpent coiled around the neck of Shiva.
"Time and Death", 1898 illustration by E. J. Sullivan for Sartor Resartus. In the 19th-century novel Sartor Resartus by Thomas Carlyle, Diogenes Teufelsdröckh uses the phoenix as a metaphor for the cyclical pattern of history, remarking upon the "burning of a World-Phoenix" and the "Palingenesia, or Newbirth of Society" from its ashes:
Khepri was a solar deity and thus connected to the rising sun and the mythical creation of the world. [3] The god and the scarab beetle represented creation and rebirth. [3] [12] There was no cult devoted to Khepri, as he was seen as a manifestation of the more prominent solar deity Ra.
Life-death-rebirth gods (10 C, 25 P) Pages in category "Life-death-rebirth deities" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. ... Dying-and-rising ...