• Thumbnail for Santa Muerte
    them against the virus. Santa Muerte is a personification of death. Unlike other Latin American folk saints, Santa Muerte is not, herself, seen as a dead...
    75 KB (8,366 words) - 04:07, 9 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Death (personification)
    cultures to personify death as a female figure. A common term for the personification of death across Latin America is "la Parca" ("The Robe"), a figure...
    51 KB (6,414 words) - 15:20, 14 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for San La Muerte
    backlash to San la Muerte has not been as extreme as the backlash to his feminine counterpart, Santa Muerte. Death (personification) Death deity San Pascualito...
    13 KB (1,702 words) - 02:14, 15 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Fascination with death
    Osiris, Hades, and La Santa Muerte have all had large cult followings. La Santa Muerte (Saint Death), or the personification of death, is currently worshiped...
    7 KB (862 words) - 09:26, 20 May 2024
  • Santa Muerte, a sacred figure venerated primarily in Mexico Shinigami, god or spirit of death in Japanese mythology Thanatos, the personification of death...
    4 KB (593 words) - 02:13, 16 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of death deities
    (Djaj(plural)) Mortja, personification of death. An equivalent of Grim Reaper.(Female)(Mortjet, plural) Vdekja, personification of death. (Female) Tuoni...
    30 KB (3,626 words) - 13:10, 1 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for San Pascualito
    Luis de Lión (José Luis de León Díaz). Death (personification) Maximón Pascual Abaj San La Muerte Santa Muerte General Feldman, Lawrence H. (1999). The War...
    5 KB (554 words) - 18:58, 26 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Danse Macabre
    universality of death. The Danse Macabre consists of the dead, or a personification of death, summoning representatives from all walks of life to dance...
    36 KB (4,514 words) - 08:06, 28 May 2024
  • derecho en los finales de la vida y el concepto de muerte digna". Apuntes de Bioética. 2016. "¿Qué es muerte digna?". Fundación Pro Derecho a Morir Dignamente...
    2 KB (230 words) - 13:12, 6 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Azrael
    of the Grave Saureil, angel of death in Mandaeism Santa Muerte Thanatos, the personification of Death in Greek mythology According to the narrator, Ikrimah...
    29 KB (3,467 words) - 16:26, 6 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Skeleton (undead)
    Skeleton (undead) (category Personifications of death)
    (personification) Gashadokuro, a type of modern Japanese yokai which takes the form of a giant skeleton Hone-onna Mummy (undead) Revenant Santa Muerte...
    13 KB (1,396 words) - 20:07, 17 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Folk Catholicism
    from such practices. This is the case of the cult of Santa Muerte (Saint Death, a personification and veneration of death). The Church has condemned the cult...
    17 KB (1,990 words) - 23:54, 23 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Religion and sexuality
    Catholicism. A personification of death, she is associated with healing, protection, and safe delivery to the afterlife by her devotees. Santa Muerte is also...
    147 KB (15,869 words) - 13:53, 16 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Religion and LGBT people
    Catholicism. A personification of death, she is associated with healing, protection, and safe delivery to the afterlife by her devotees. Santa Muerte is also...
    130 KB (12,850 words) - 05:42, 12 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for LGBT-affirming religious groups
    Catholicism. A personification of death, she is associated with healing, protection, and safe delivery to the afterlife by her devotees. Santa Muerte is also...
    176 KB (16,457 words) - 18:54, 16 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Death and culture
    Mexican tradition holds the goddess or folk saint called Santa Muerte as the personification of death. In modern-day European-based folklore, Death is known...
    44 KB (6,075 words) - 00:09, 17 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Death
    ISSN 0011-5266. JSTOR 20025315. Chesnut RA (2018) [2012]. Devoted to Death: Santa Muerte, the Skeleton Saint (Second ed.). New York City: Oxford University Press...
    120 KB (12,549 words) - 05:02, 15 June 2024
  • Catholicism. A personification of death, she is associated with healing, protection, and safe delivery to the afterlife by her devotees. Santa Muerte is also...
    152 KB (15,364 words) - 04:01, 16 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for The Masque of the Red Death
    The Masque of the Red Death (category Fiction about personifications of death)
    #1 (1979). In 1975, Ediciones Ursus (Spain) published "La Mascara de la Muerte Roja" in Macabro #17. Art by Francisco Agras. In 1979, Bloch Editores S...
    24 KB (3,128 words) - 13:37, 28 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mexico
    was executed. The "Restored Republic" saw the return of Juárez, "the personification of the embattled republic," as president. The Conservatives had been...
    268 KB (25,282 words) - 23:45, 13 June 2024
  • reference to Ammit, a female figure from Egyptian mythology who was the personification of divine retribution for all the wrongs a person had done in his or...
    18 KB (2,588 words) - 17:07, 26 May 2024
  • Death flights (Spanish: vuelos de la muerte) are a form of extrajudicial killing in which the victims are dropped to their death from airplanes or helicopters...
    27 KB (2,800 words) - 02:36, 7 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Folk saint
    person ever existed). In contrast, other folk saints such as San la Muerte and Santa Muerte are outright condemned by the Catholic Church as being evil and...
    63 KB (2,783 words) - 19:13, 3 May 2024
  • death", "death merchant", or "death merchants" on Wikipedia. Death (personification) Merchant (disambiguation) Death (disambiguation) This disambiguation...
    4 KB (503 words) - 00:01, 27 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Joan Gamper
    and the fact that the club developed into a polideportivo, the very personification of Gamper, is the most fitting tribute to this all-round sportsman...
    30 KB (2,975 words) - 16:04, 9 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for La Calavera Catrina
    La Calavera Catrina (category Personifications of death)
    Day Danse Macabre Day of the Dead Death (personification) Ghosts in Mexican culture Memento mori Santa Muerte Skeleton (undead) Cordova, Ruben C. (November...
    16 KB (1,873 words) - 08:16, 14 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Human skull symbolism
    scarves. The trend is extant by the early 2010s. Danse macabre Death (personification) Death's head (disambiguation) Jolly Roger Life replacement narratives...
    21 KB (2,507 words) - 02:37, 9 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Master Polikarp's Dialog with Death
    human bodies decay Old Polish Danse Macabre Death (personification) Morana (goddess) Santa Muerte "Professor Wydra's Great Discovery". The Polish Book...
    4 KB (469 words) - 23:44, 1 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Morana (goddess)
    Morana (goddess) (category Personifications of death)
    by songs and best wishes. Today, Marzanna is often perceived as a personification of winter and the symbolic drowning ends this season and returns life...
    20 KB (2,421 words) - 15:17, 13 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Christopher Columbus
    fewer ties to Britain. His name was the basis for the female national personification of the United States, Columbia, in use since the 1730s with reference...
    189 KB (21,060 words) - 11:40, 13 June 2024