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Visual depiction of Shinigami

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Vol. II · Polytheism · death

Shinigami

Japanese death spirits


skeletal figures in dark robes appearing at the moment of death, their scythes severing the thread of life as they guide the soul away

Organization
Mixed Bronze/Iron-Age pantheons
Time period
varies
Location
varies
Archetype
death

Source attribution

This visual depiction is one of 1,947 in the archive — a creative historical rendering of how Mixed Pantheons (set 4) has expressed the divine. The depiction is interpretive, not iconographic.