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Owuo, Akan God of Death and Destruction, and the Personification of death. 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; Amokye, Psychopomp in Akan religion who fishes the souls of the dead from the river leading to Asamando, the Akan underworld
Nemty – Falcon god, worshiped in Middle Egypt, [22] who appears in myth as a ferryman for greater gods [23] Neper – A god of Grain [24] Osiris – A god of death and resurrection who rules Duat and enlivens vegetation, the sun god, and deceased souls [25] Ptah – A creator deity and god of craftsmen, the patron god of Memphis [26]
The Canaanites of the 12th- and 13th-century BC Levant personified death as the god Mot (lit. "Death"). He was considered a son of the king of the gods, El. His contest with the storm god Baʿal forms part of the Ba'al Cycle from the Ugaritic texts. The Phoenicians also worshipped death under the name Mot and a version of Mot later became ...
Death gods (8 C, 70 P)-Egyptian death deities (2 C) ... Pages in category "Death deities" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total.
Life-death-rebirth goddesses (5 C, 11 P) P. Persephone (6 C, 27 P) U. Underworld goddesses (6 C, 55 P) Pages in category "Death goddesses"
Angel of Death Schemhampharae: Christianity, Judaism A list of 72 angels of the 9 choir orders, with esoteric meaning related to the names of God Selaphiel: Sealtiel, Selatiel Christianity Archangel Patron saint of prayer and worship Seraph (type) [note 1] Seraphim (plural) Christianity, Islam, Judaism (type) Seraphiel [19] Christianity ...
It also describes bodily changes that accompany death and the after-death period. Thanatophoric dysplasia, so named because of its lethality at birth, is the most common lethal congenital skeletal dysplasia with an estimated prevalence of one in 6,400 to one in 16,700 births. Its name Thanatophoros, means "death-bearing" in Greek.
The Greek word κήρ means "the goddess of death" or "doom" [2] [3] and appears as a proper noun in the singular and plural as Κήρ and Κῆρες to refer to divinities. Homer uses Κῆρες in the phrase κήρες θανάτοιο, "Keres of death". By extension the word may mean "plague, disease" and in prose "blemish or defect".