ABSTRACT
There are 477 gods of death in Marjorie Leach’s world-encyclopedic Guide to the Gods. The Warao in Venezuela know death as Abuhene, an evil god of death who represents the setting sun. In India, Kati Ankamma is the goddess of cremation and burial who devours corpses and preys on children and cattle. In Bohemia, Morana is a goddess of death and of winter. The Chinese have a god who helps souls of the dead to the afterworld so that they may be judged. And in the Fijian Islands, Ravuravu is known as the god of murder. The list of the gods who embody death rolls on for another 472 paragraphs.
