He is normally depicted wearing a Chinese judge's cap and traditional Chinese robes and appears on most forms of hell money offered in ancestor worship. In Chinese, he is known as King Yan ( t 閻 王, s 阎 王, p Yánwáng) or Yanluo ( t 閻羅 王, s 阎罗 王, p Yánluówáng), ruling the ten gods of the underworld Diyu. Yama was introduced to Chinese mythology through Buddhism. The most well-known of these spirits is Baron Samedi. In Haitian Vodou, the Gede are a family of spirits that embody death and fertility. The image of the death is also associated with Exu, lord of the crossroads, who rules cemeteries and the hour of midnight.
In the Brazilian religion Umbanda, the orixá Omolu personifies sickness and death as well as healing. He is associated with death and the curing of diseases. In Guatemala, San Pascualito is a skeletal folk saint venerated as "King of the Graveyard." He is depicted as a skeletal figure with a scythe, sometimes wearing a cape and crown. In Aztec mythology, Mictlāntēcutli, is the god of the dead, depicted as a skeleton or a person wearing a toothy skull. The rituals connected and powers ascribed to San La Muerte are very similar to those of Santa Muerte the resemblance between their names, however, is coincidental. Although the Catholic Church in Mexico has attacked the devotion of Saint Death as a tradition that mixes paganism with Christianity and is contrary to the Christian belief of Christ defeating death, many devotees consider the veneration of San La Muerte as being part of their Catholic faith. Saint Death is depicted as a male skeleton figure usually holding a scythe. As the result of internal migration in Argentina since the 1960s, the veneration of San La Muerte has been extended to Greater Buenos Aires and the national prison system as well. San La Muerte (Saint Death) is a skeletal folk saint venerated in Paraguay, northeast Argentina, and southern Brazil. Mictlantecuhtli (left) depicted in Codex Borgia La Calavera Catrina, a character symbolizing death, is also an icon of the Mexican Day of the Dead.
Since the pre-Columbian era, Mexican culture has maintained a certain reverence towards death, as seen in the widespread commemoration of the Day of the Dead. Our Lady of the Holy Death (Santa Muerte) is a female deity or folk saint of Mexican folk religion, whose popularity has been growing in Mexico and the United States in recent years. She was also known as The Hangwoman as she came to help along those who had killed themselves. She was a minor goddess in the scale of Aztec mythology. There was also the goddess of suicide, Ixtab. She presided over the ancient festivals of the dead, which evolved from Aztec traditions into the modern Day of the Dead after synthesis with Spanish cultural traditions. Mictecacihuatl was represented with a fleshless body and with jaw agape to swallow the stars during the day. Other epithets for her include "Lady of the Dead," as her role includes keeping watch over the bones of the dead. In Aztec mythology, Mictecacihuatl is the " Queen of Mictlan" (the Aztec underworld), ruling over the afterlife with her husband Mictlantecuhtli. As such, it is common in Spanish-speaking cultures to personify death as a female figure. When a Grim Reaper retires, their Death Scythe would be collected.La Calavera Catrina Latin America Īs is the case in many Romance languages (including French, Portuguese, Italian, and Romanian), the Spanish word for death, muerte, is a feminine noun. Unmodified Death Scythes look like simple hand scythes. It is against the rules to modify or even use a Death Scythe without permission. This is due to the fact that Death Scythes can be modified, so long as the proper papers are filed to the Administrative Division. Īlthough all Death Scythes are based on gardening tools, each Death Scythe's appearance seems to be unique to the individual Grim Reaper. However, there is an exception: a Death Scythe cannot cut through another Death Scythe. Death Scythes are notorious for being able to cut through anything, including memories, souls, dimensions, demons, and other Grim Reapers. Īdditionally, a Death Scythe can be used to engage in combat. Only then would the human's life officially end. If the human is to die, the Death Scythe would be used to sever the link between a human's memories and soul and their body. 1.1 Identified Death Scythes and OwnersĪ Grim Reaper uses a Death Scythe to view a human's memories via their Cinematic Record, which allows the Grim Reaper to decide whether or not the human should die.
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