Talk:Death deity
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[edit] Research to be done
List assembled by Dreamingkat. Please edit in place.
[edit] Not enough credible sources to confirm yet (min 3, not counting wikipedia)
- Ilamatecuhtli- goddess of the earth, death, and the milky way
- unable to find any
- Xi Balba - God of the Death
- One reference in AD&D 1E Deities & Demigods book. This is not indicative of actual real-world status though.
- unable to find any
- Osiris (Egyptian)
[edit] Not yet researched
- Janas - Goddesses of death
- Panas - Goddesses of reproduction (women dead in childbirth)
- Ankou (Breton)
- Izanami (Shinto)
- The Morrigan (Irish/Celtic)
- One reference in AD&D 1E Deities & Demigods book. This is not indicative of actual real-world status though. Various other references to this deity in D&D products, but without specific notes as to sphere of influence.
- Mors (Roman)
- Mot (Canaanite)
- Odin (Norse)
- Anpu (Egyptian)
- Shemal (Semitic)
- Shinigami (Japanese)
- Sielulintu, Kalma, Surma (Finnish)
- Hun-Came (Mayan) Yum Cimil, a death deity,
- Yama (Hindu)
- Yanluo (Chinese)
- Polynesian - Marama is a lunar deity and a goddess of death for the Māori.
- Diedievaitė - Lithuanian: a deity of the black death.
- Australian aboriginal- Baiame: a sky god and a deity of death and life
[edit] Death versus underworld/hell
I saw that Hel was listed ars he god of death in he norse pantheon, but she is the goddess of Hell, the underworld for the people who died outside the balltefield (Balltefield deaths go to Wahalla and the hall of Freija). So, what is the focus on this page? Kim van der Linde at venus 03:51, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
- I'm thinking that we should list both deities of the underworld and deities of death, as the two "jobs" overlap in an awful lot of cultures, and there is no list of deities of the underworld. Dreamingkat 03:57, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
