Death
deity figure · 6 works · 12 mentions · 29 anchored passages
also in the atlas: Death the idea · Death the event
Mṛtyu · Thanatos · King Yama · Yama · bloodthirsty Hades' minister · priest of souls departed · the black-robed monarch of the dead · the god · the tyrant death
spoken of as
2 expressionsMṛtyu“Death”4 mentions
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda) (Sanskrit)
him do I bind in the noose of Mṛtyu.
Yama“Death”1 mention
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda) (Sanskrit)
O King Yama, this ladle is raised up for knowledge, this oblation is set forth — be pleased with it.
in the texts
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda)
Personified Death, identified with the ritual owl's messenger role and as the far realm from which the beloved is drawn.
You are the messenger of Death, O owl — I cook you up together.
The śālālava plant, the alluring one, brought from forest to forest — by which Gaya the Gandharva drew the Apsarases to himself — by that same I draw that one to me, from the range of Death, from the farthest distance.
O King Yama, this ladle is raised up for knowledge, this oblation is set forth — be pleased with it.
Alcestis
The personified god of death who comes to Admetus's house to claim Alcestis as the substitute victim for Admetus, and who resists Apollo's pleas to spare her.
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Protrepticus
Personified Death, treated both as a refuted pagan god and as the tyrant conquered by Christ.
So Sleep and Death, two twin gods, could no longer reasonably be reckoned by you, these being affections that befall living things naturally;
The Lord wished to loose him again from his bonds, and, bound in flesh (this is a divine mystery), he subdued the serpent and enslaved the tyrant, death;
Theogony
A god, child of Night, pitiless and iron-hearted, who seizes mortals and never releases them.
and he is hateful even to the deathless gods.
And there the children of dark Night have their dwellings, Sleep and Death, awful gods.
Rigveda
Personified Death addressed directly and commanded to depart along its own path, away from the living.
O Death, depart by thine own other path that is different from the gods' road.
I set this enclosing barrier for the living — may none of them proceed to that farther goal.
Having come here wiping away the footprint of Death, establishing a longer span of life, growing prosperous with progeny and wealth — pure, cleansed, be ye worthy of sacrifice.