death deity

He is associated with the Wild Hunt of dead, and thus a death deity.

Rhys, under a different name, which he would never tell me, had been worshipped as a death deity.

Overlooking this scene is the death deity who rises from a vat of liquid, perhaps pulque.

In this supernatural romance inspired by the myth of Persephone, a girl flirts with a death deity.

Behind the players are two figures, one with a deer head, who are watching from the court walls as well as the death deity again above.

Two of the main protagonists are said to be Shinigami, death deities of Japanese folklore who can take on many forms.

A figure dressed as an eagle dances in front while a skeletal deity flies above and the death deity rises from liquid.

Death deity (chthonic)

Typically, Bharani is seen as being under the domain of Yama (Hinduism), the Death deity or Kālī.

Ogbunabali (Igbo: [He] kills at night) is the traditional Igbo Death deity.

Deities concerned with birth are often cultivated like death deities, with nocturnal offerings that suggest a theological view of birth and death as a cycle.

In some religions with a single powerful deity as the object of worship, the death deity is an antagonistic deity against which the primary deity struggles.

"I wasn't the only one who used to be a death deity, and I'm not the only one who lost a great deal of their weirding when the Nameless was cast.

The Meredith Gentry series by Laurell K. Hamilton features a character, Rhys, who was once the death deity Cromm Cruach.

Weneg (also read as Uneg) was a sky and death deity from ancient Egyptian religion, who was said to protect the earth and her inhabitants against the arrival of the "great chaos".

The Coimbra death deity is probably associated with the complex of death gods, such as those of Palo Gordo, but finding more samples in eastern Guerrero, are required to confirm this relationship.

The first known mention of a god named Weneg appears in a spell from the Pyramid Texts from the Sixth Dynasty, where he is described both as a death deity and as the deceased king.

After Weneg's death, his heraldic flower was not used again until king Teti (6th dynasty), when it was used in his pyramid texts to name a "Weneg" as a sky and death deity which was addressed with "Son of Ra" and "follower of the deceased king".