Déu de la mort
El déu (o deessa) de la mort és una divinitat que personifica la mort a diverses cultures. Sovint forma parella amb una divinitat major, creadora del món.
Llista dels déus de la mort
[modifica]- Mitologies africanes: Abassi, Ala, Azrail, Chuku.
- Mitologia asteca: Mictlantecuhtli.[1]
- Mitologia babilònica: Ereshkigal,[2] Ixtar,[3] Nergal[4]
- Mitologia budista: Yama
- Mitologia cananea: Mot
- Mitologia celta: Morrigan
- Mitologia egípcia: Anubis,[5] Osiris[6]
- Mitologia finesa: Tuoni[7]
- Mitologia grega: Thanatos,[8] Hades.[9]
- Mitologia igbo: Ogbunabali
- Mitologia japonesa: Enma (probablement una transliteració de Yama)
- Mitologia maia: Ah Puch
- Mitologia maori: Hine-nui-te-pō.
- Mitologia nòrdica: Freya, Odín[10]
- Mitologia romana: Plutó
Referències
[modifica]- ↑ http://www.azteccalendar.com/god/Mictlantecuhtli.html
- ↑ "The counterpart to these deities of sky, air, water, and earth was the underworld, the realm of the dead, originally seen as ruled by the powerful Goddess Ereshkigal." Ruether, Rosemary Radford. Goddesses and the Divine Feminine: A Western Religious History. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-23146-5
- ↑ "After consulting his mistress Ereshkigal, the queen of the Nether World, he admits Ishtar" Kramer, "Ishtar in the Nether World According to a New Sumerian Text" Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research. 1940. Google scholar results as the JSTOR link is unlikely to be universally available.
- ↑ http://www.gatewaystobabylon.com/gods/lords/undernergal.html
- ↑ http://www.anubis.org/anubis.html Arxivat 2012-10-26 a Wayback Machine.
- ↑ http://www.anubis.org/osiris.html Arxivat 2012-05-26 a Wayback Machine.
- ↑ http://www.godchecker.com/pantheon/finnish-mythology.php?deity=TUONI
- ↑ http://www.theoi.com/Daimon/Thanatos.html
- ↑ [1] A page describing Hades.
- ↑ Kveldulf Gundarsson. (1993, 2005) Our Troth. ISBN 0-9770165-0-1