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 Mitologies africanes: Abassi, Ala, Azrail, Chuku. Mitologia asteca: Mictlantecuhtli. http://www.azteccalendar.com/god/Mictlantecuhtli.html Mitologia babilònica: Ereshkigal,"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. Ixtar,"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. Nergal http://www.gatewaystobabylon.com/gods/lords/undernergal.html Mitologia budista: Yama Mitologia cananea: Mot Mitologia celta: Morrigan Mitologia egípcia: Anubis, http://www.anubis.org/anubis.html Osiris http://www.anubis.org/osiris.html Mitologia finesa: Tuoni http://www.godchecker.com/pantheon/finnish-mythology.php?deity=TUONI Mitologia grega: Thanatos, http://www.theoi.com/Daimon/Thanatos.html Hades. A page describing Hades. Mitologia guanche: Guayota Mitologia igbo: Ogbunabali Mitologia japonesa: Enma (probablement una transliteració de Yama) Mitologia maia: Ah Puch Mitologia maori: Hine-nui-te-pō. Mitologia nòrdica: Freya, OdínKveldulf Gundarsson. (1993, 2005) Our Troth. Mitologia romana: Plutó
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