Also, patron of the Ptolemaic Kingdom and Alexandria Serapis, Graeco-Egyptian syncretistic deity, combining elements of Osiris, the Apis Bull, Hades, Demeter, and Dionysus.Seker, a falcon god of the Memphite necropolis who was known as a patron of the living, as well as a god of the dead.Qebehsenuef, one of the four sons of Horus.Nehebkau, the primordial snake and funerary god associated with the afterlife, and one of the forty-two assessors of Maat.She was believed to also escort dead souls to Osiris Nephthys (NebetHuet), Anubis' mother sister of Osiris and Isis (Aset) also a guardian of the dead.Medjed, an unusual looking god mentioned in the Book of the Dead.Duamutef, one of the four sons of Horus.Assessors of Maat, charged with judging the souls of the dead in the afterlife.Aqen, a rarely mentioned deity in the Book of the Dead.Anubis, guardian of the dead, mummification, and the afterlife in ancient Egyptian religion.Huur, a messenger of Death who had the form of a large bird similar to Horus of ancient Egypt.
Nkrabea,The deity of destiny and fate, believed to influence human fortunes and life paths, as well as their deaths.Amokye, Psychopomp in Akan religion who fishes the souls of the dead from the river leading to Asamando, the Akan underworld.Asase Yaa, one half of an Akan Goddess of the barren places on Earth, Truth and is Mother of the Dead.Name literally means death in the Akan language Owuo, Akan God of Death and Destruction.However, in practice this manifests in different rituals and traditions and varies according to a number of factors including geography, politics, traditions, and the influence of other religions.Īfrica and the Middle East Section of the Book of the Dead for the scribe Hunefer, depicting the Weighing of the Heart in Duat, featuring the deities Anubis, Ammit and Thoth Sub-Sahara Africa Igbo In monotheistic religions, the one god governs both life and death (as well as everything else). A single religion/mythology may have death gods of more than one gender existing at the same time and they may be envisioned as a married couple ruling over the afterlife together, as with the Aztecs, Greeks, and Romans.
The inclusion of such a "departmental" deity of death in a religion's pantheon is not necessarily the same thing as the glorification of death.Ī death deity has a good chance of being either male or female, unlike some functions that seem to steer towards one gender in particular, such as fertility and earth deities being female and storm deities being male. Hades from Greek mythology is an especially common target. The deity in question may be good, evil, or neutral and simply doing their job, in sharp contrast to a lot of modern portrayals of death deities as all being inherently evil just because death is feared. This deity may actually take the life of humans or, more commonly, simply rule over the afterlife in that particular belief system (a single religion may have separate deities performing both tasks). In polytheistic religions which have a complex system of deities governing various natural phenomena and aspects of human life, it is common to have a deity who is assigned the function of presiding over death. In monotheistic religions, death is commonly personified by an angel or demon instead of a deity. The related term death worship has most often been used as a derogatory term to accuse certain groups of morally abhorrent practices which set no value on human life. In some religions in which a single powerful deity is the object of worship, the death deity is an antagonist against whom the primary deity struggles. As death, along with birth, is among the major parts of human life, these deities may often be one of the most important deities of a religion. Many have incorporated a god of death into their mythology or religion. Maya death god "A" way as a hunter, Classic period He was subsequently adopted by Buddhist, Chinese, Tibetan, Korean, and Japanese mythology as the king of hell. Yama, the Hindu god of death and Lord of Naraka (hell). For the fictional ideology, see Political geography of Nineteen Eighty-Four § Eastasia.
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