Death
Death is personified as a speaking entity in the Book of Job. Death appears alongside Abaddon and states that they have only heard a report of wisdom.
↻ synthesized from 7 sources
When
- First attested
- 3000 BCE
- Attested period
- -3000 – 2020
- Historical notes
- Personified in Job 28:22 where it speaks alongside Abaddon.
Relationships
- syncretized with
- Apollyon
- allied with
- Abaddon, Grim Reaper
- co occurs with
- Kalumba, Kinbumba-Bumba, Kalala Kabwa, Life, Yanluo Wang, Qinguangwang, Chujiangwang, Songdiwang, Wuguanwang, Bianchengwang, Taishanwang, Pingdengwang, Dushiwang, Zhuanlunwang, Heidi, Phong Đô Đại Đế, Odin, Bast, Duma, Cronus, Saturn, Chronos, Father Time, Sheol, Remiel
- serves
- Bao Zheng
- created by
- God, Kinbaka-Baka
- manifests as
- ram
- served by
- Azrael
- has aspect
- One Death, Seven Death
Mentioned by
Sources
Source passages
“In the Old Testament, Abaddon and Death can be personified: Abaddon and Death say, 'We have heard a rumor of it with our ears.'”
#2386 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“Kalumba tried to stop the personification of Death from encountering humans by placing a dog and a goat to guard the paths leading to Earth. The dog, on the first watch, fell asleep and let Death in”
#2430 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“An archetypal Grim Reaper appears in Terry Pratchett's 1980s-2010s fantasy comedy series of novels Discworld (simply named Death)”
#12267 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“Sometimes he is accompanied by three assistants named "Old Age", "Illness" and "Death".”
#13975 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“Islam elaborated further narratives concerning the relation between Azrael and Death. Christian Lange mentioned that according to some scholars Azrael and Death were one entity; other exegesis scholars opined Azrael and Death were different entities, with Death as some kind of tool used by Azrael to take life.”
#14225 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001