In the Iliad, Apollo is the healer under the gods, but he is also the bringer of disease and death with his arrows, similar to the function of the terrible Vedic god of disease Rudra.

Homer interprets Apollo as a terrible god ( δεινός θεός ) who brings death and disease with his arrows, but who can also heal, possessing a magic art that separates him from the other Greek gods.

Instead, Alcestis took his place, but Heracles managed to " persuade " Thanatos, the god of death, to return her to the world of the living.

Some belief systems, such as those in the Abrahamic tradition, hold that the dead go to a specific plane of existence after death, as determined by a god, gods, or other divine judgment, based on their actions or beliefs during life.

The Greek god Hades is known in Greek mythology as the king of the underworld, a place where souls live after death.

Anubis is also known as the god of mummification and death.

Instead like other jackals Anubis ' head was black to resemble the god of death.

Kings begins with the death of David, to whom Yahweh, the god of Israel, has promised an eternal dynasty, and the succession of his son Solomon.

The Norse god superhero Thor communicates with what appears to be Rogers ' spirit on the first anniversary of Rogers ' death, in Thor vol.

In this state, he was directly identified with Ra, and was also associated with Osiris, god of death and rebirth and the mythological father of Horus.

In chapter 49, High describes the events surrounding the death of the god Baldr.

His third marriage was to Deianira, for whom he had to fight the river god Achelous ( upon Achelous ' death, Heracles removed one of his horns and gave it to some nymphs who turned it into the cornucopia.

After death, the gods transformed him into an immortal, or alternatively, the fire burned away the mortal part of the demigod, so that only the god remained.

Loki's positive relations with the gods end with his role in engineering the death of the god Baldr.

Further in Skáldskaparmál, the skaldic god Bragi recounds the death of Skaði's father Þjazi by the Æsir.

Although they would never die of old age nor illness, and could give birth to fully immortal children if mated to a god, they themselves were not necessarily immortal, and could be beholden to death in various forms.

A living, sacred ram, was kept at Mendes and worshipped as the incarnation of the god, and upon death, the rams were mummified and buried in a ram-specific necropolis.

Plutarch and others have noted that the sacrifices to Osiris were " gloomy, solemn, and mournful ..." ( Isis and Osiris, 69 ) and that the great mystery festival, celebrated in two phases, began at Abydos on the 17th of Athyr ( November 13 ) commemorating the death of the god, which was also the same day that grain was planted in the ground.

" The death of the grain and the death of the god were one and the same: the cereal was identified with the god who came from heaven ; he was the bread by which man lives.

* Many religions involve the story of a god who undergoes death and resurrection ( see life-death-rebirth deity ).

After his death at the age of 54, Romulus was deified as the war god Quirinus and served not only as one of the three major gods of Rome but also as the deified likeness of the city of Rome.

In chapter 49, High describes the death of the god Baldr.

Compiled in Iceland in the 13th century, but based on much older Old Norse poetry, the Poetic Edda and the Prose Edda contain numerous references to the death of Baldr as both a great tragedy to the Æsir and a harbinger of Ragnarök.

Frigg plays a major role in section 49 of the 13th century Prose Edda book Gylfaginning written by Snorri Sturluson, where a version of a story relating the death of Baldr is recorded by Snorri.

The next morning, Hermóðr begs Hel to allow Baldr to ride home with him, and tells her about the great weeping the Æsir have done upon Baldr's death.

In the account of Baldr's death in Saxo Grammaticus ' early 13th century work Gesta Danorum, the dying Baldr has a dream visitation from Proserpina ( here translated as " the goddess of death "):

Loki reminds Frigg that he is responsible for the death of her son Baldr.

As he was thrown into the snake pit, Ragnar was said to have uttered his famous death song: " It gladdens me to know that Baldr ’ s father makes ready the benches for a banquet.

Finally a beautiful reborn world will rise from the ashes of death and destruction where Baldr will live again in a new world where the earth sprouts abundance without sowing seed.

" John Lindow observes that if Hlín is indeed Frigg, then this means that Hlín's " second sorrow " in Völuspá is the death of Odin, the first being the death of Baldr.

In Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda, Baldr goes to Hel upon death and subsequently Hermóðr uses Sleipnir to attempt to retrieve him.

In the Prose Edda more detailed information is given about the location, including a detailed account of a venture to the region after the death of the god Baldr.

At the end of chapter 49, the death of Baldr and Nanna is described.

This is a reference to Baldr, Nanna and those that were burnt in their funeral pyre passing over the bridge upon death.

In the 13th century Prose Edda, due to the scheming of Loki, the god Baldr is killed by his brother, the blind god Höðr, by way of a mistletoe projectile, despite the attempts of Baldr's mother, the goddess Frigg, to have all living things and inanimate objects swear an oath not to hurt Baldr after Baldr had troubling dreams of his death.

* There are three main events leading up to Ragnarök itself: the birth of Loki's three monstrous children, the death of Baldr and subsequent punishment of Loki, and the onset of Fimbulwinter.

The portion of the stanza mentioning Fensalir foretells that vengeance will come for the death of Baldr and that:

After this, Loki immediately disappears, and subsequently engineers the death of Baldr with a mistletoe projectile.

It is their tultul, the ' jumping platform ' of death.

Hamm's world is death and Clov may or may not get out of it to join the living child outside.

Boredom is death.

But the highroad, according to the description of its traffic, belongs to life as it is lived in unawareness of death, while the way to the churchyard belongs to some other sort of life: a suffering form, an existence wholly comprised in the awareness of death.

Only when that term is ended and he is a private citizen again can he be permitted the freedom and the courage to discount the dangers of his death.

And when the child dies in Lawrence's story in a delirium that is somehow brought on by his mania to win and to make his mother rich, the manifest absurdity of such a disease and such a death does not enter into our thoughts at all.

He is born in secrecy after the death of his father and cast adrift soon after birth.

Malraux, to be sure, does not abandon the world of violence, combat and sudden death which has become his hallmark as a creative artist, and which is the only world, apparently, in which his imagination can flame into life.

Patchen is repeatedly preoccupied with death.

He mentions the beats only once '', when he refers to their having revived through mere power and abandonment and the unwillingness to, commit death in life some idea of a decent equivalent between verbal expression and actual experience,, but the entire narrative, is written in the tiresome vocabulary `` of '' that lost `` and '' dying cause, `` and in the '' `` sprung syntax that is supposed to supplant, our mother, tongue.

What they have objected to is the attempt of the Russians to make use of the tragedy of Dag Hammarskjold's death to turn the entire U.N. staff from the Secretary down into political agents of the respective countries from which they come.

This matter is of great importance, and the outcome may mean the difference between life or death, or at least serious injuries, for many veterans.

Sir -- An old man is kicked to death by muggers.

I once heard a comedian say that if you are killed by a taxicab in New York, it is listed as `` death due to natural causes ''.

Her mother wrote Kate of her grief at the death of Kate's baby and at Jonathan's decision to go with the South `` And, dear Kate '', she wrote, `` poor Dr. Breckenridge's son Robert is now organizing a militia company to go South, to his good father's sorrow.

There is a death in all partings, she knew, and promptly put it out of her mind.

They hail from Travancore, a state in the subcontinent where Kali, the goddess of death, is worshiped.

He is confronted with the recurrent crises, such as great natural catastrophes and the great transitions of life -- marriage, incurable disease, widowhood, old age, the certainty of death.

Therefore, it is not only a question of honor but of life and death for the Soviet state ''.

the ceramic material of the age is more abundant, more diversified, and more indicative of the hopes and fears of its makers, who begin to show scenes of human life and death.

Whereas, John Brown has cheerfully risked his life in endeavoring to deliver those who are denied all rights and is this day doomed to suffer death for his efforts in behalf of those who have no helper: Therefore,

As the first collective confrontation of the Nazi outrage, the Trial of Eichmann represents a recovery of the Jews from the shock of the death camps, a recovery that took fifteen years and which is still by no means complete ( though let no one believe that it could be hastened by silence ).