Personifications of death
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personifications-of-death-190-5658537
title:
Personifications of death
text:
Personifications of death are found in many religions and mythologies. In some mythologies, a character known as the Grim Reaper causes the victim's death by coming to collect that person's soul. Other beliefs hold that the spectre of death is only a psychopomp, a benevolent figure who serves to gently sever the last ties between the soul and the body, and to guide the deceased to the afterlife, without having any control over when or how the victim dies. Death is most often personified in male
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Anthropomorphized depiction of life's end
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personifications_of_death
date created:
2002-10-26T00:25:22Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T15:15:52Z
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13
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