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By: Dominique Dews/ Δομίνικος. Thanatos / Θάνατος. was the god or daemon of non-violent death. His most common symbol is a torch turned downwards.
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By: Dominique Dews/ Δομίνικος Thanatos /Θάνατος was the god or daemon of non-violent death
His most common symbol is a torch turned downwards. Thanatos was portrayed as a young man with an inversed torch in one hand and a wreath or butterfly in the other.
"And he’s the child of dark Night have their dwellings, Sleep and Death, awful gods. The glowing Sun never looks upon them with his beams, neither as he goes up into heaven, nor as he comes down from heaven. And the former of them roams peacefully over the earth and the sea's broad back and is kindly to men; but the other has a heart of iron, and his spirit within him is pitiless as bronze: whomsoever of men he has once seized he holds fast: and he is hateful even to the deathless gods."
Thanatos at Troy Thanatos played an important role in the Trojan War when he was summoned by Apollon to assist in the return of the body of Sarpedon to his native land of Lykia (Lycia). Sarpedon was a son of Zeus and thus a demigod. He was an ally of the Trojans and fought bravely until he was killed by Patroklos (Patroclus) in the last year of the war. At Zeus's command, Thanatos retrieves the dead body of Sarpedon from the battlefield at Troy
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