God of death — Mythoi

Motif

God of death.

Mythological motifs. · Gods. · Gods of the earth. · Gods of abstractions. · view the constellation · filed as A487

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Literary Crystallization The Vision; or, Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise , Paradise 7
Reference The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (abridged) , Chapter LII LII. Killing the Divine Animal
Reference The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (abridged) , Chapter VII VII. Incarnate Human Gods
Reference The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (abridged) , Chapter XL XL. The Nature of Osiris

Filed across the traditions

Buddhist myth Malalasekera II 680
India *Thompson-Balys
Maori Clark 8, 135
Marshall Is. Davenport 222
S. Am. Indian (Toba) Métraux Myths 19
Icel. Boberg.
general *Wesselski Archiv Orientální I 300ff. Hindu: Penzer X 365 s. v. "Yama"

Within the index

Filed under Gods of abstractions.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Death kills only those whose time it is to die Goddess of death

Filed beside it

God of wisdom God of beauty God of fate God of justice God of the arts Goddess of fame God of happiness The three Graces God of prophecy God of sleep God of wealth Gods of youth and age God of love Goddess of chastity Goddess of childbirth God of disease

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

God of world of the dead demands that men die so he will have subjects. (Cf. A487)

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