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| | Death - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | There is an asymmetry between life and death. | | | Belief in consciousness continuing after death is common and has endured throughout history. | | | There are many anecdotal references to people being declared dead by physicians and then coming back to life, sometimes days later in their own coffin, or when embalming procedures are just about to begin. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death
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| | MarvelDirectory.com |
| | Death remains one of the greatest mysteries of the universe. | | | Death gods like Hela and demons like Mephisto seem to receive certain undefined powers from Death and even rule over extradimensional realms seemingly inhabited by the souls of deceased mortals. | | | The relationship between Death and the so-called gods of the dead of the various pantheons is also very hazy. |
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http://www.marveldirectory.com/individuals/d/death.htm
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| | personification -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia |
| | Heavenly deities, as the personification of the physical aspects of the sky, appear in variations that are adapted to the types... | | | Pietas had a temple at Rome, dedicated in 181 BC, and was often represented on coins as a female figure carrying a palm branch and a sceptre or as a matron casting incense upon an altar, sometimes accompanied by a stork, the symbol of filial... | | | in Roman religion, personification of a respectful and faithful attachment to gods, country, and relatives, especially parents. |
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http://www.britannica.com/ebi/article-9059355
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| | thanatos |
| | Death is spiritual, the passing on of our spirit, soul into the next world. | | | By honoring him, we honor death and invite it so that Death itself might be friendly when it is time to take us to the Underworld. | | | It might be possible to say that Thanatos first ruled the Underworld before Hades took over from him and overshaduwed him in the myths. |
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http://www.geocities.com/morosbe2001/thanatos.html
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| | RealMagick Article: Select Cross-Cultural and Historical Personifications of Death by Leilah Wendell |
| | To the ancient Romans, Orcus was the god of death and was described as a "pale divinity, almost devoid of flesh and furnished with immense, black wings." His function was to carry the souls of the dead to the underworld, which they believed was literally a place beneath the earth's surface. | | | Yama is called the "King of Death" in Buddhism, and certain Hindu pantheons. | | | Death told his new wife not to go through the clearing when she went to fetch water. |
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http://realmagick.com/articles/14/1814.html
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| | Obviously, death really can't die because it does not have a body, but if these lines are viewed from a spiritual viewpoint, death can die because after people die, we are no longer susceptible to death, so for us, death will die—it will no longer be a factor in our existence. | | | This may be true, but the paradox here is that a definition of death is eternal sleep, and if sleep is truly as wonderful as the speaker claims, logically speaking, death would be preferred. | | | Though John Donne's poem was written over three hundred and fifty years ago, it has survived the centuries because it discusses the universal topic of death with a refreshing approach, one that causes people to reevaluate their concepts of death. |
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http://www.ic.arizona.edu/ic/wendres/wpfinkp.html
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| | Representations of death |
| | In paintings and other representations, Death the tyrant slaughtered thousands of people with various weapons such as spears, arrows, spades, scythes, maces and rakes. | | | It is interesting to note that the dead body itself was never garbed in black -- the colour of the winding sheet or shroud seems always to have been white. | | | The ghost is the representation of someone who is dead. |
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http://death.monstrous.com/representations_of_death.htm
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| | The Buddha's Encounters with Mara the Tempter |
| | A personification of Death is called also the lord of death (Maccuraaja), the exterminator (Antaka), the great king (mahaaraaja), and the inescapable (Namuci). | | | The preoccupation of the Buddhist quest for deliverance is consistently stressed as escaping the phenomenon of death, which presupposes rebirth. | | | There was also evidently a legend of a devaputta of the Vasavatti world called Maara, who considered himself the head of the Kaamaavacara-world [the sensual realm] and who recognized any attempt to curb the enjoyment of sensual pleasures as a direct challenge to himself and to his authority. |
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http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/guruge/wheel419.html
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| | Love Is Stronger Than Death |
| | Kreeft's book is a new statement of the Christian vision, the Christian message: the meaning of our existence, and of death, is the fulfillment of our deepest and purest desire: the desire for the infinite joy and love of God. | | | A Tiber River reviewer hasn't written a review for this book yet. | | | We sell catholic bibles, Catholic books, rosaries, crucifixes, Catholic jewelry, Catholic art, Catholic music, Catholic videos, church supplies and Catholic gifts. |
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http://www.aquinasandmore.com/index.cfm/FuseAction/Store.ItemDetails/SKU/2067
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| | Cailleach is the crone form of all Keltic Goddesses. | | | Arawn [wa]: Arianrhod [wa]: Goddess of Life, Death, and Rebirth. | | | Dark Lord: the Holly King, the Sacrificial Lord, and the Lord of Death. |
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http://www.ladyoftheearth.com/faeries/gods.txt
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| | Dead & Buried : Death Euphemisms |
| | Some people say that I have a morbid fascination with death, or that I am a sick person. | | | This site, and the rest of S.G. Longpig's House of Mystery, is graciously hosted by Forthright's Phrontistery. | | | - somewhat irreverent allusion to the Crucifixion and de-nailing/taking down of Jesus Christ's body after his death |
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http://phrontistery.50megs.com/longpig/dead.html
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| | NodeWorks - Encyclopedia: Azrael |
| | In Terry Pratchett's novel Reaper Man, Death has a brief conversation with Azrael, who he addresses as "Lord" and who he is described to be an aspect of. | | | He is depicted as an angel under the command of God. | | | Azrael is a personification of death appearing in the Biblical Book of Tobit and in the Qur'an. |
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http://pedia.nodeworks.com/A/AZ/AZR/Azrael
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| | Neil Gaiman's Death |
| | Not death, but the very Death with a capital D, anthropomorphic personification of the principle of, well, the end of life, you know. | | | Death tried to cheer him up with a quote from Mary Poppins (yes, I know...), talked about their mission and his role, and after that little speech, she took him on her "tour". | | | In the first book, "The High Cost of Life", she takes a day "off", not stopping to work, but living on Earth like a mortal being for a day. |
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http://www.soulcatcher.org/sc/library/death.htm
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| | personification |
| | "The pale yellow woods were waning/ The broad streaming banks his complaining/ Heavily the low sky raining." Now it seems that not only does nature perceive the death that is to come, but is complaining about it. | | | These lines also foreshadow the tragedy that occurs later in the poem--it is as if even nature shivers at the thought of what is to come. | | | Personification of nature creates images of sadness and gloom that permeate the poem as it continues. |
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http://barney.gonzaga.edu/~cherr/personification.html
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| | Black Statements: Sylvia Plath's "Little Fugue" and Paul Celan's "Death Fugue" |
| | The "you" in stanza ten that follows describes the father who has disappeared in "Great silence of another order" that is his death. | | | I would say that Plath made use of Nazi barbarity to express her personal suffering, most notably her father's death when she was eight, but in doing so she also described the victims of Nazism's experience of terror. | | | Both "Daddy" and "Death Fugue" are incantations as if both poets are trying to exorcise their dead. |
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http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/2003/stonepap.html
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| | personification |
| | Hymen - Hymen or Hymenaeus, in Greek mythology, personification of marriage, represented as a beautiful... | | | Mnemosyne - Mnemosyne, in Greek mythology, the personification of memory. | | | John Ruskin termed sentimentalized, exaggerated personification the “pathetic fallacy.” See also |
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http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/ent/A0838524.html
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| | SarahElwood: The Raven And the Personification of Death |
| | SarahElwood: The Raven And the Personification of Death | | | He speaks of the "lost Lenore," and to every question the character asks, the raven responds "Nevermore." I think the Raven, Death, has come to take the narrator into the afterlife to be with his love, Lenore. | | | I think the Raven wants to take the character to a better place, to a place where he can be with his love for eternitiy. |
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http://blogs.setonhill.edu/SarahElwood/005014.html
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| | Discworld |
| | Ysabell is the adopted daughter of Death, who saved her as a baby when her parents were killed in the Great Nef desert (no explanation has been given as to why he did this). | | | He first appears in the eponymous novel Mort, where Death chooses him as his apprentice. | | | Death's scythe looks normal enough, except for the blade, which is so thin you can see through it - a pale blue shimmer that could slice and chop sound. |
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http://home.att.net/~u100486004/discworld_files/slide0002.htm
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| | Death reaper - Wikimedia Commons |
| | The Death reaper is an allegoric character that shows the odds of Death, reaping the souls while wandering in the lands. | | | The allegoric idea of Death is also a famous symbol in flamish Renaissance paintings. |
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http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Death_reaper
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| | Movie Film Essays - The Personification of Death in Jean Cocteau’s Orpheus |
| | Death in Cocteau’s Orpheus is not only powerful and vulnerable, but she also changes throughout the course of the movie. | | | But in the end she cannot be with her love, and she realizes this and does what is forbidden in the Underworld and defies time and sends back her love to whom he loved before her. | | | The personification of Death is done by means of a princess of the Underworld in Jean Cocteau’s Orpheus. |
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http://www.123helpme.com/preview.asp?id=25651
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| | Necromance-The Angel of Death in Art |
| | We have a scrap-book here featuring images of Death that either I have collected, or have been sent to me from all over the world. | | | This part of our site will eventually become the largest source of Anthropomorphic Death imagery available on the web today, with a focus on those images that may be a bit more obscure, or lesser known than the classical "Danse Macabre" series. | | | A few of these images were created especially for us and you won't find them anywhere else. |
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http://www.westgatenecromantic.com/necrotic.htm
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