Zoroastrianism states that for the righteous souls, a beautiful maiden, which is the personification of the soul's good thoughts, words and deeds, appears.

Hilda Ellis Davidson ( 1948 ) states that Hel " as a goddess " in surviving sources seems to belong to a genre of literary personification, that the word hel is generally " used simply to signify death or the grave ," and that the word often appears as the equivalent to the English ' death ,' which Davidson states " naturally lends itself to personification by poets.

The personification of Moira appears in the newer parts of the epos.

Pietas appears on the obverse as a divine personification, in bust form ; the quality of pietas is represented by a son carrying his father on his back.

Nut appears in the creation myth of Heliopolis which involves several goddesses who play important roles: Tefnut ( Tefenet ) is a personification of moisture, who mated with Shu ( Air ) and then gave birth to Sky as the goddess Nut, who mated with her brother Earth, as Geb.

* The king is trampled by a reaping skeleton horseman, as the Pictorial Key to the Tarot describes him, which appears to be a personification of death.

His name is that of an arch-demon who first appears in the literature of Israel's Second Temple Period, as a personification of the Hebrew word " mastemah " ( משטמה ), meaning " hatred ", " hostility ", " enmity " or " persecution ".

His cartoons deal at first mainly with social subjects, and are rough and imperfect in execution, but gradually their method gains in power and their subjects become more distinctly political, and by 1849 the artist is strong enough to produce the splendidly humorous national personification which appears in Disraeli Measuring the British Lion.

The deity's name usually appears in masculine grammatical form when he is conceived of as a male generative force, but the neuter form Caelum is also found as a divine personification.

Germania ( personification ) | Germania, a personification of the German nation, appears in Philipp Veit's fresco ( 1834 – 36 ).

The difference between " god " and " anthropomorphic personification " in the Disc's pantheon is unclear ; essentially it appears to be that a " god " is a being assigned a wide range of roles and powers by human belief, while personifications embody concepts and things that would exist whether people believed in them or not.

The personification of Winter, he appears in Wintersmith, where he believes he's fallen in love with Tiffany Aching.

The anthropomorphic personification of the river appears as one of the daughters of Mama Thames in the novel Rivers of London.

The animus " first appears as a personification of mere physical power-for instance as an athletic champion or muscle man, such as ' the fictional jungle hero Tarzan '".

This word appears as a proper name,, of the personification of the first sword created by Brahma.

In Norse mythology, Elli ( Old Norse " old age ") is a personification of old age who, in the Prose Edda book Gylfaginning, defeats Thor in a wrestling match.

The earliest English examples of the personification of Christmas are apparently those in carols of the 15th century.

) Because this bodhisattva is considered the personification of compassion and kindness, a mother-goddess and patron of mothers and seamen, the representation in China was further interpreted in an all-female form around the 12th century.

However, in the 11th century, the Pirqe de-Rabbi Eliezer, drawing on ancient legends of the fallen angel or angels, brought back to the mainstream of rabbinic thought the personification of evil and the corresponding myth.

New Zealanders adopted a similar personification of their country in Zealandia, Britannia's daughter, who appeared on postage stamps at the turn of the 20th century and still features in the New Zealand Coat of Arms.

Asmodeus ' reputation as the personification of lust continued into later writings, as he was known as the " Prince of Lechery " in the 16th century romance Friar Rush.

The September 11, 2001 attacks are used as a motif representing a break with the past with Cayce's father, who disappears during the attacks, as the personification of the 20th century.

The Gibson Girl was the personification of the feminine ideal of beauty portrayed by the satirical pen-and-ink illustrations of illustrator Charles Dana Gibson during a 20-year period that spanned the late nineteenth and early twentieth century in the United States.

The woman is said by some to be a depiction of Zealandia, a common national personification of New Zealand during the first half of the 20th century.

It begins at the Purim feast given by David Moishele, a wealthy Russian Jewish merchant in mid-19th century Vilna, personification of what Adler referred to as the " Grand Jew ", surrounded by family, friends, servants: in effect, a monarch in his court.

It is primarily based on the teachings of Gang Il-Sun ( Chungsan Kang ), an early 20th century religious leader described by his followers as the incarnation and personification of Sangjenim, the governing spirit of the universe.

Especially in the 19th century, Columbia would be visualized as a goddess-like female national personification of the United States, comparable to the British Britannia, the Italian Italia Turrita and the French Marianne, often seen in political cartoons of the 19th-early 20th century.

Communist leaders throughout the 20th century have criticized and denounced the philosopher as the personification of China's " feudal " traditions, with anti-Confucianism ranging from the 1912 New Culture Movement to the 1973 Criticize Lin, Criticize Confucius campaign during the Cultural Revolution.

Medieval painting of Death ( personification ) | Death playing chess from Täby | Täby Church in Sweden

The name of the national personification of Switzerland, Helvetia, and the country's Neo-Latin name, Confoederatio Helvetica, are both derived from the name of the Helvetii.

The woman may also refer to Mnemosyne, the Greek personification of memory and mother of the muses, referring directly to Coleridge's claimed struggle to compose this poem from memory of a dream.

Some thinkers believe that myths resulted from the personification of inanimate objects and forces.

In the Rigveda, the name Sarasvati already does not always relate to a river and its personification exclusively ; in some places, the goddess Saraswati is abstracted from the river.

The Wedding-Guest's reaction turns from bemusement to impatience and fear to fascination as the Mariner's story progresses, as can be seen in the language style: for example, Coleridge uses narrative techniques such as personification and repetition to create either a sense of danger, of the supernatural or of serenity, depending on the mood of each of the different parts of the poem.

Bukharin himself speaks of his " peculiar duality of mind " in his last plea, which led to " semi-paralysis of the will " and Hegelian " unhappy consciousness ", which presumably stemmed from the conflict between his knowledge of the reality of Stalinist rule and the threat of fascism, which led Bukharin and others to follow Stalin, who had become the personification of the Party.

In the version sited at Rhodes, a much earlier mythic level is reflected in the genealogy: there, the woman who plunged into the sea and became Leucothea was Halia (" of the sea ", a personification of the saltiness of the sea ) whose parents were from the ancient generation, Thalassa and Pontus or Uranus.

In Greek mythology, Apate was the personification of deceit and was one of the evil spirits released from Pandora's box.

Asclepius represents the healing aspect of the medical arts ; his daughters are Hygieia (" Hygiene ", the goddess / personification of health, cleanliness, and sanitation ), Iaso ( the goddess of recuperation from illness ), Aceso ( the goddess of the healing process ), Aglæa / Ægle ( the goddess of beauty, splendor, glory, magnificence, and adornment ), and Panacea ( the goddess of universal remedy ).

In Greek mythology, Eiresione ( Greek: Εἰρεσιώνη, from εἶρος-eiros, " wool ") was the personification of an object very important in many Greek rituals and ceremonies: a branch of olive or laurel, covered with wool, fruits, cakes and olive flasks, dedicated to Apollo and carried about by singing boys during the festivals of Pyanopsia and Thargelia, and afterwards hung up at the house door.

In Greek mythology, Erebus (), also Erebos (, " deep darkness, shadow "), was often conceived as a primordial deity, representing the personification of darkness ; for instance, Hesiod's Theogony places him as one of the first five beings to come into existence from Chaos.

In this context, he is the personification of the Scamander River that flowed from Mount Ida across the plain beneath the city of Troy, joining the Hellespont north of the city.

Hygieia and her five sisters each performed a facet of Apollo's art: Hygieia (" Hygiene " the goddess / personification of health, cleanliness, and sanitation ), Panacea ( the goddess of Universal remedy ), Iaso ( the goddess of recuperation from illness ), Aceso ( the goddess of the healing process ), and Aglæa / Ægle ( the goddess of beauty, splendor, glory, magnificence, and adornment ).

In Greek mythology, Thanatos (, " Death ," from θνῄσκω-thnēskō, " to die, be dying ") was the daemon personification of death.

It is likely that he was transliterated from the Greek daemon Horkos, the personification of Oaths and a son of Eris.

In Roman mythology, Mefitis ( or Mephitis ) was the personification of the poisonous gases emitted from the ground in swamps and volcanic vapors.

The phallus formed an essential part of the symbol, probably because the divinity represented by it was in the earliest times, before the worship of Dionysus was imported from the East, the personification of the reproductive powers of nature.

Auseklis ( derived from root aus-" dawn " or " orient " and-" seed ", or from verb aust-" to rise ( for sun, stars or moon ), thus Auseklis may carry the meaning of " The one who rises " ) was a Latvian god, and the personification of the celestial body Venus.

As the personification of all that was evil, Apep was seen as a giant snake / serpent, or occasionally as a dragon in later years, leading to such titles as Serpent from the Nile and Evil Lizard.

Narada, an ancient sage ( probably a personification of the cloud, the water-giver ), is considered as the messenger between the gods and men, and as having sprung from the forehead of Brahma.

Bhārat Mātā ( Hindi, from Sanskrit, Bhārata Mātā ), Mother India, or Bhāratāmbā ( Sanskrit: ; अम ् ब ा ambā means ' mother ') is the national personification of India as a mother goddess.

In Comforts of a Bed of Roses ( 1806 ), Gillray depicts Death ( personification ) | Death crawling out from under Fox's covers, entwined with a scroll inscribed " Intemperance, Dropsy, Dissolution ".