COPY: Is there an angel or deity of death?

[D.O.]

Is there an angel or deity of death?

[ButterflyWoman]

Yes, and in many cultures and traditions. Just off the top of my head, Azrael is the angel of death according to certain Near Eastern traditions, and also Santa Muerte, a saint (literally "Saint Death"), so not an angel, but a similar concept.

Other deities of death include (but this is not a comprehensive list, just what I can think of as I write this): Hades/Pluto, Thanatos, Morrigan, Osiris, Anubis, Hel, Iku, Kali, Shiva, Yama, Mot, and many others who have death as one of their aspects (these are ones that come to mind as being primarily or prominently associated with death or the dead). There are also a number of deities of various underworlds, lords/kings/queens of the dead, and so forth.

And, of course, there is the thoughtform entity we might call the Grim Reaper, which is not a deity so much as a personification of death (as is Thanatos, mentioned above).

This is a topic easily researched, by the way, and it's an interesting one, too. A simple Google search will yield lots of interesting information.

[DarkChylde]

i very highly recommend that you watch this , it will answer all of it not most of your questions

click the 1st button from the right reading "free"

Paranormal Witness - The Entities of Death , well researched and very well documented

[eyeoneblack]

These are the 10 Arch-devils of the Kaballah; Satan/Moloch/Samael, Beelzebub, Lucifuge, Ashtaroth, Asmodeus, Belphegor, Baal, Adrammelech, Lilith and Nahema.
This is pretty complicated but Samael resides over the lesser 'devils' and is the angel of poison and death.

So, you see, there is a whole 'world' of the broken material shells, the influences of the Dark and spiritual death.

[DarkChylde]

Yes, and in many cultures and traditions. Just off the top of my head, Azrael is the angel of death according to certain Near Eastern traditions.

there's a verse from quran that most of learn when we are taught arabic , it goes likes "Ya Rabbah Azreal ul Malik Ul Maut"

"and when my time comes the Azrael (God's appointed archangel for death) will give to me his knowing nod and so shall the soul leave the body"

as a child i always thought angels were white winged halo-floating-mid-forehead kind of thing , but Azreal i always thought of as the rouge and the maverick , out in the the thick of the fray , and very dark too , dark wings , dark skin.

[DarkChylde]

forgot to get out the moot point Azreal in arabic is aka "Malik" (Master/Owner/Over-seer) of "Maut" (death)

if in the hierarchy an angel is appointed superintendency of death , wouldn't some other angel be that of birth? , just i have't heard of one.

[ButterflyWoman]

"and when my time comes the Azrael (God's appointed archangel for death) will give to me his knowing nod and so shall the soul leave the body"

That's quite a comforting thought, IMHO.

FWIW, I've encountered Azrael, in an OBE (he came and got me, and escorted me somewhere). I know it was Azrael because I asked. I wasn't dying (obviously ), so it seems that the archetype can, like the Death card in the Tarot, represent big change as well. Death of the old, that sort of thing.

Azreal i always thought of as the rouge and the maverick , out in the the thick of the fray , and very dark too , dark wings , dark skin.

Most visual representations of him have him with dark, curly hair and dark skin, looking distinctly Semitic or Arabic, possibly because of the origin of the Azrael mythology. (Note, of course, that these are not Jewish or Arabic art, generally, because of the Old Testament prohibition against representational idols.) When I saw him, he looked like that, but I've probably been influenced by various artistic and literary interpretations.

I only saw him just that one time. I wonder if he'll turn up again when I really do die. That'd be cool.

[Tutor]

DC ~ "Azreal in arabic is aka "Malik" (Master/Owner/Over-seer) of "Maut" (death)"

Malik, or Maliak(ch) translates as Angel of the Lord. Hebrew

also given to rest opposite of the name Mariam. Maliak|mairaM, like that.

this is like being face to face, or panim panim. Jacob named the place where he wrestled the Lord's Angel, calling it Peniel which means...Face to face with the Lord Our God.

this is like the Shema, where is written, "Hear! O' Yisrael, the Lord is our God, the Lord is One".

in study one may see that "many are called, but few are chosen". such a one as chosen is such a one having come face to face, otherwise all others are yet facing away even as the Lord is facing away. kailaM|Mariam

understanding this, is to look upon prayerfulness, whereof both hands meet palm to palm. in the human palms are Ms. Life calls us to prayer, each in every of One. prayer is very powerful, simply because one within their powerlessness is calling upon the Lord thy God's power. in their weakness is His strength. commonly, under one's own human strength thay do not call upon the Lord. of course that is not true for all, some pray all the time, some even walk in prayer as a walking prayer (prayerfulness). this is greater than mindfulness, because mindfulness can be heady, the big head, big mind, of huge ego. operably, zen buddhism utilizes a remedy for such headiness. Prayerfulness is always within the human weakness, if not one's own, then prayer is for another, or other, or everyone as one, the One whose strength comes in our weakness.

i wrote more, but i feared it too very much.

i also love this one too, DC. "and when my time comes the Azrael (God's appointed archangel for death) will give to me his knowing nod and so shall the soul leave the body". ~ is good word, i reckon so. such a time would surely be face to face, ya reckon?

the word Maut: is Persian in origin, going back to Shem>Elam...and Elams treaty by marriage with Medians. Maut has been eroneously translated down through time as meaning ultimate physical "death". however, it does not mean death in the sense of physical death. it merely points out to say "game over", thus leaving the conquered King in place, to remain to stay. this may be found true through history's report, wherein a Kingdom would be conquered, thus occupied by the conquering force, yet leaving the King charged with His Kingdom and subjects(people). this, even as the conquering force by surrender/treaty/marriage...the over-ruling occupation. this, like in european history. also like in the U.S. under treatys that are 500 years old, native americans are sovereign entitys as long as they remain within their given reservations, these reservations actual reserve alnds belonging to all the people of the U.S., yet regulated under federal law, as opposed to state laws which regulate state residents, though these residents be U.S. citizens, also subject under federal law. more "honorable" or amicable outcomings of war and such like.

[Maut is Mate, in every sense that 'mate' is. like a pair of socks, lose one sock and you'll be searchin for it's mate.]

this sort of looking at it kinda helps understand this part of the word shared: "...and so shall the soul leave the body". for a nation, or a kingdom has a soul, that soul the body of the people under/within their own freely given rule, till such time as being conquered for whatever reason or another, as history's report ever reveals..."reason". so again, there are many deaths that we humanly might endure, even as there is physical death for each of us in our given unique times.

surely the loss of childhood innocense is as a death. yet, whom will not lose such in the lifetime. but, the bit of word you shared, reveals a re-membrance unto innocense. perhaps to say, to be given a new spirit. it's hard not to apply dualistics to such reads that would in the applying be read that such dualistics is the scene dualistically seen. "things'" get in the way. but with much faithful prayer, perhaps one might see to read from given sight. even if that means with sight seeing to read brail, or hear the audible word.

sight is sight.

thanks for your sharing DC,

Tim

[Gemma]

These links might interest you if you're curious about the Vodou religion. The Ghede are spirits of the dead.
http://www.readersandrootworkers.org/wiki/Baron_Samedi
http://www.ezilikonnen.com/the_lwa/gede.html