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Mictecacihuatl (Aztec mythology), [28] the chief death goddess; Queen of Mictlan (underworld) or Lady of the Dead; Mictlantecuhtli (Aztec mythology), the chief death god; lord of the Underworld [29] Tlaloc (Aztec mythology), water god and minor death god; ruler of Tlalocan, a separate underworld for those who died from drowning
In ancient Greek religion and mythology, Pan (/ p æ n /; [2] Ancient Greek: Πάν, romanized: Pán) is the god of the wild, shepherds and flocks, rustic music and impromptus, and companion of the nymphs. [3]
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.
In the Old Kingdom, Anubis was the most important god of the dead. He was replaced in that role by Osiris during the Middle Kingdom (2000–1700 BC). [18] In the Roman era, which started in 30 BC, tomb paintings depict him holding the hand of deceased persons to guide them to Osiris. [19] The parentage of Anubis varied between myths, times and ...
Cybele, Phrygian goddess of the fertile earth and wild animals; Demeter, goddess of the harvest, crops, the fertility of the earth, grains, and the seasons; Dionysus, god of wine, vegetation, pleasure, madness, and festivity. The Roman equivalent is Bacchus. [5] Dryads, tree and forest nymphs
Aristaeus, god of bee-keeping, cheese-making, herding, olive-growing and hunting; Artemis, goddess of the hunt, wild animals and the moon; Heracles Kynagidas; Pan, in addition to being a god of the wild and shepherds, was also a hunting god. Persephone, the goddess of life and death, also known for being Hades' wife
According to the retelling of the story found in the poem Metamorphoses by the Roman poet Ovid (43 BC – AD 17/18), Adonis was the son of Myrrha, who was cursed by Aphrodite with insatiable lust for her own father, King Cinyras of Cyprus, [23] [24] [25] after Myrrha's mother bragged that her daughter was more beautiful than the goddess.
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 ...