What gender is the anthropomorfic representation of Death in your culture?

Started by Martinus, October 28, 2016, 08:31:18 AM

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Is Death a boy or a girl?

Male
17 (77.3%)
Female
5 (22.7%)
Other/Neuter
0 (0%)

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The Brain

#15
October 28, 2016, 12:56:10 PM
In Sweden Death is cis male.
Women want me. Men want to be with me.

11B4V

#16
October 28, 2016, 06:42:46 PM
A crazy white boy with a scary black rifle.
"there's a long tradition of insulting people we disagree with here, and I'll be damned if I listen to your entreaties otherwise."-OVB

"Obviously not a Berkut-commanded armored column.  They're not all brewing."- CdM

"We've reached one of our phase lines after the firefight and it smells bad—meaning it's a little bit suspicious... Could be an amb—".

Zoupa

#17
October 28, 2016, 11:36:53 PM
Quote from: Syt on October 28, 2016, 09:44:18 AM
While male in German, my favorite representation of Death is female, though.



"You lived what everybody gets. You got a lifetime."

:wub:

Sandman?

Martinus

#19
October 29, 2016, 04:19:43 AM
Quote from: Brazen on October 28, 2016, 09:05:51 AM
Interesting. Got any pictures of how she's depicted?

Here's a modern depiction from a website on Slavic mythology/paganism which clearly shows her as female but most of the depictions I have seen are just the same skeleton in robes and with a scythe you get in the English folkflore.



I guess it helps that the word for death ("śmierć") is feminine, much like it is in French ("la mort").
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