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In Greek religion

Greek religion

Greek religion can refer to several things, including*Religion in ancient Greece**Greek hero cult**Eleusinian Mysteries**Hellenistic religion...
, Thánatos (in Greek

Greek language

Greek is an Indo-European languages native to the southern Balkan peninsula, the language of the Greek people. It forms an independent branch within Indo-European....
, ???at?? – "Death
Death

Death is the permanent termination of the biological functions that define a life organism. It refers to both a particular event and to the condition that results thereby....
") was the dæmon

Daemon (mythology)

The words daemon, d?mon, are Latinized spellings of the Greek language da???? , used purposely today to distinguish the daemons of Ancient Greek religion, good or malevolent "supernatural beings between mortals and gods, such as inferior divinities and ghosts of dead heroes" , from the Judeo-Christian usage demon, a malignant...
personification of Death and Mortality. He was a minor figure in Greek mythology, often referred to but rarely appearing in person. His name is transliterated in Latin

Latin

Latin is an Italic language, historically spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. Through the Military history of the Roman Empire, Latin spread throughout the Mediterranean and a large part of Europe....
as Thanatus, but his Roman

Roman mythology

Roman mythology, or more appropriately, Latin mythology, refers to the mythology beliefs of the Italic people inhabiting the region of Latium and its main city, Rome....
equivalent is Mors
Mors (mythology)

In Roman mythology, Mors is the Death and equivalent to the Greek Thanatos . He is the son of the goddess of night, Nyx, and is the brother of the personification of sleep, Hypnos....
or Letus/Letum, and he is sometimes identified (perhaps erroneously) with Orcus

Orcus (mythology)

Orcus was a god of the underworld, punisher of broken oaths in Italic and Roman mythology. He was more equivalent to the Roman Pluto than to the Greek Hades, and later identified with Dis Pater....
.

In Myth and Poetry
The Greek

Greece

Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , is a country in southeastern Europe, situated on the southern end of the Balkans. It has borders with Albania, Bulgaria and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to the north, and Turkey to the east....
poet

Poet

A poet is a person who writes poetry....
Hesiod

Hesiod

Hesiod was a Greek language oral poet, his date is uncertain but leading scholars agree that Hesiod lived in the latter half of the Eighth-century BCE....
established in his Theogony
Theogony

The Theogony is a poem by Hesiod describing the origins and genealogy of the polytheism of the ancient Greeks, composed circa 700 BC....
that Thánatos is a son of Nyx (Night) and Erebos (Darkness) and twin of Hypnos

Hypnos

In Greek mythology, Hypnos was the personification of sleep; the Roman mythology equivalent was known as Somnus. His twin was Thanatos ; their mother was the goddess Nyx ....
(Sleep).

"And there the children of dark Night have their dwellings, Sleep and Death, awful gods.

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In Greek religion
Greek religion

Greek religion can refer to several things, including*Religion in ancient Greece**Greek hero cult**Eleusinian Mysteries**Hellenistic religion...
, Thánatos (in Greek
Greek language

Greek is an Indo-European languages native to the southern Balkan peninsula, the language of the Greek people. It forms an independent branch within Indo-European....
, ???at?? – "Death
Death

Death is the permanent termination of the biological functions that define a life organism. It refers to both a particular event and to the condition that results thereby....
") was the dæmon
Daemon (mythology)

The words daemon, d?mon, are Latinized spellings of the Greek language da???? , used purposely today to distinguish the daemons of Ancient Greek religion, good or malevolent "supernatural beings between mortals and gods, such as inferior divinities and ghosts of dead heroes" , from the Judeo-Christian usage demon, a malignant...
personification of Death and Mortality. He was a minor figure in Greek mythology, often referred to but rarely appearing in person. His name is transliterated in Latin
Latin

Latin is an Italic language, historically spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. Through the Military history of the Roman Empire, Latin spread throughout the Mediterranean and a large part of Europe....
as Thanatus, but his Roman
Roman mythology

Roman mythology, or more appropriately, Latin mythology, refers to the mythology beliefs of the Italic people inhabiting the region of Latium and its main city, Rome....
equivalent is Mors
Mors (mythology)

In Roman mythology, Mors is the Death and equivalent to the Greek Thanatos . He is the son of the goddess of night, Nyx, and is the brother of the personification of sleep, Hypnos....
or Letus/Letum, and he is sometimes identified (perhaps erroneously) with Orcus
Orcus (mythology)

Orcus was a god of the underworld, punisher of broken oaths in Italic and Roman mythology. He was more equivalent to the Roman Pluto than to the Greek Hades, and later identified with Dis Pater....
.

In Myth and Poetry

The Greek
Greece

Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , is a country in southeastern Europe, situated on the southern end of the Balkans. It has borders with Albania, Bulgaria and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to the north, and Turkey to the east....
poet
Poet

A poet is a person who writes poetry....
Hesiod
Hesiod

Hesiod was a Greek language oral poet, his date is uncertain but leading scholars agree that Hesiod lived in the latter half of the Eighth-century BCE....
established in his Theogony
Theogony

The Theogony is a poem by Hesiod describing the origins and genealogy of the polytheism of the ancient Greeks, composed circa 700 BC....
that Thánatos is a son of Nyx (Night) and Erebos (Darkness) and twin of Hypnos
Hypnos

In Greek mythology, Hypnos was the personification of sleep; the Roman mythology equivalent was known as Somnus. His twin was Thanatos ; their mother was the goddess Nyx ....
(Sleep).

"And there the children 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." (Hesiod, Theogony 758 ff, trans. Evelyn-White, Greek epic C8th or C7th B.C.)

Homer
Homer

Homer is traditionally held to be the author of the ancient Greek language epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey, as well as of the Homeric Hymns....
also confirmed Hypnos and Thanatos as twin brothers in his epic poem, the Iliad
ILiad

The iLiad is an electronic handheld device, or e-book device, which can be used for document reading and editing. Like the Sony Reader or Amazon Kindle, the iLiad makes use of an electronic paper display....
, where they were charged by Zeus
Zeus

Zeus in Greek mythology is the king of the gods, the ruler of Mount Olympus and the god of the sky father and List of thunder gods. His symbols are the thunderbolt, eagle, bull , and oak....
via Apollo
Apollo

In Greek mythology and Roman mythology, Apollo , is one of the most important and many-sided of the Twelve Olympians. The ideal of the kouros , Apollo has been variously recognized as a god of light and the sun; truth and prophecy; archery; medicine and healing; music, poetry, and the arts; and more....
with the swift delivery of the slain hero Sarpedon
Sarpedon

In Greek mythology, Sarpedon referred to at least three different people....
to his homeland of Lykia.

"Then [Apollon] gave him [Sarpedon] into the charge of swift messengers to carry him, of Hypnos and Thanatos, who are twin brothers, and these two presently laid him down within the rich countryside of broad Lykia." (Homer, Iliad 16. 681 ff)

Counted among Thanatos' siblings were other negative personifications such as Geras
Geras

In Greek mythology, Geras was the god of ageing. It was considered a virtue whereby the more geras a man acquired, the more kleos and arete he was considered to have....
(Old Age), Oizys
Oizys

In Greek mythology, Oizys is the goddess of distress, worry, and anxiety. She is the daughter of Nyx , the goddess of night and the twin of the god Momos. Her Latin name is Miseria, from which the English word 'misery' is derived....
(Suffering), Moros
Moros

In Greek mythology, Moros is the personification of impending doom, who drives every being, mortal or otherwise, to its fated doom. Very little is known about him, but he is thought to be omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent, and not even Zeus can defeat him....
(Doom), Apate
Apate

Apate was the daughter of Nyx in Greek mythology. She was the personification of deceit, and was one of the evil spirits released from Pandora's box....
(Deception), Momos (Blame), Eris
Eris (mythology)

Eris is the Greek mythology goddess of strife, her name being translated into Latin as Discordia. Her Greek opposite is Harmonia , whose Latin counterpart is Concordia ....
(Strife), Nemesis
Nemesis (mythology)

Nemesis , also called Rhamnousia/Rhamnusia , at her sanctuary at Rhamnous, north of Marathon, Greece, in Greek mythology was the spirit of divine punitive justice against those who succumb to hubris, vengeful fate personified as a remorseless goddess....
(Retribution) and even the Acherousian
Acheron

The Acheron is a river located in the Epirus region of northwest Greece. It flows into the Ionian Sea in Ammoudia, Preveza, near Parga....
/Stygian
Styx

Styx may refer to:* Styx , the river that forms the boundary between the Greek underworld and the world of the living, as well as a goddess and a nymph that represent the river....
boatman Kharon
Charon (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Charon or Kharon was the ferryman of Hades who carried souls of the newly deceased across the river that divided the world of the living from the world of the dead....
. He was loosely associated with the three Moirai (for Hesiod, also daughters of Night), particularly Atropos
Atropos

In Greek mythology, Atropos was one of the three Moirae, Goddesses of wikt:fate and destiny. Her Roman equivalent was Morta . Atropos was the oldest of the Three Fates, and was known as the "inflexible" or "inevitable." It was Atropos who chose the mechanism of death and ended the life of each mortal by cutting their thread with her "abhor...
, who was a goddess of death in her own right. He is also occasionally specified as being exclusive to peaceful death, while the bloodthirsty Keres
Keres (mythology)

In Greek mythology, the Ceres were female death-spirits. The Keres were daughters of Nyx , and as such the sisters of Fate , Doom , Death and Sleep , Strife , Old Age , Divine Retribution , Charon , and other personifications....
embodied violent death. His duties as a Guide of the Dead
Psychopomp

Many religions include a particular spiritual being, angel, or deity whose responsibility is to escort newly-deceased souls to the afterlife. These creatures are called psychopomps, from the Greek language word ????p??p?? , literally meaning the "guide of souls"....
were sometimes superseded by Hermes
Hermes

Hermes is the messenger of the gods in Greek mythology. An Twelve Olympians, he is also the patron of boundaries and of the travelers who cross them, of shepherds and cowherds, of thieves and road travelers, of orators and wit, of literature and poets, of athletics, of weights and measures, of invention, of general commerce, and of the cunni...
Psychopompos. Conversely, Thanatos may have originated as a mere aspect of Hermes before later becoming distinct from him.

Thanatos was thought of as merciless and indiscriminate, hated by - and hateful towards - mortals and the deathless gods. But in myths which feature him, Thanatos could occasionally be outwitted, a feat that the sly King Sisyphos
Sisyphus

In Greek mythology, Sisyphus , was a king punished in Tartarus by being cursed to roll a huge boulder up a hill, only to watch it roll down again, and to repeat this throughout eternity....
of Korinth
Ancient Corinth

Corinth, or Korinth was a city-state on the Isthmus of Corinth, the narrow stretch of land that joins the Peloponnesus to the mainland of Greece, roughly halfway between Ancient Athens and Sparta....
twice accomplished. When it came time for Sisyphos to die, he cheated Death by tricking him into his own shackles, thereby prohibiting the demise of any mortal while Thanatos was so enchained. Eventually Ares
Ares

In Greek mythology, Ares is the son of Zeus and Hera. Though often referred to as the Twelve Olympians God of warfare, he is more accurately the god of bloodlust, or slaughter personified: "Ares is apparently an ancient abstract noun meaning throng of battle, war."...
, the bloodthirsty god of War, grew frustrated with the battles he incited, since neither side suffered any casualties. He released Thanatos and handed his captor over to the god, though Sisyphos would evade Death a second time by convincing Persephone
Persephone

In Greek mythology, Persephone was the embodiment of the Earth's fertility at the same time that she was the Queen of the Greek Underworld, the kore , and the parthenogenesis daughter of Demeter and, in later Classical myths, a daughter of Demeter and Zeus....
to allow him to return to his wife. As before, Sisyphos would be recaptured and sentenced to an eternity of frustration in Tartaros
Tartarus

In classic Roman mythology, below Heaven, Earth, and Pontus is Tartarus, or Tartaros . It is a deep, gloomy place, a pit, or an abyss used as a dungeon of torment and suffering that resides beneath the Hades....
.

"King Sisyphos, son of Aiolos, wisest of men, supposed that he was master of Thanatos; but despite his cunning he crossed eddying Akheron twice at fate's command." (Alcaeus, Fragment 38a, trans. Campbell)

Thanatos is usually an inexorable fate for mortals, but he was only once successfully overpowered, by the mythical hero Herakles
Heracles

In Greek mythology, Heracles or Herakles meaning "glory of Hera", or "Glorious through Hera" Alcides or Alcaeus " was a hero, the son of Zeus and Alcmene, foster son of Amphitryon and great-grandson of Perseus....
. Thanatos was consigned to take the soul of Alkestis
Alcestis

Alcestis is a princess in Greek mythology, known for her love of her Admetus. Her story was popularised in Euripides's tragedy Alcestis ....
, who had offered her life in exchange for the continued life of her husband, King Admetos
Admetus

In Greek mythology, Admetus /?d 'mi: t?s/ was a king of Pherae in Thessaly, succeeding his father Pheres after whom the city was named. Admetus was one of the Argonauts and took part in the Calydonian Boar hunt....
of Pherai
Pherae

Pherae was an ancient Greek town in southeastern Thessaly. In mythology, it was the home of King Admetus, whose wife, Alcestis, Heracles went into Hades to rescue....
. Herakles was an honored guest in the House of Admetos at the time, and he offered to repay the king's hospitality by contending with Death itself for Alkestis' life. When Thanatos ascended from Hades to claim Alkestis, Herakles sprung upon the god and overpowered him, winning the right to have Alkestis revived. Thanatos fled, cheated of his quarry.

Thanatos : Much talk. Talking will win you nothing. All the same, the woman goes with me to Hades' house. I go to take her now, and dedicate her with my sword, for all whose hair is cut in consecration by this blade's edge are devoted to the gods below. (Euripides, Alcestis 19 ff, trans. Vellacott, Greek tragedy C5th B.C.)

In Art and Sculpture

"To Thanatos, Fumigation from Manna. Hear me, O Thanatos, whose empire unconfined extends to mortal tribes of every kind. On thee the portion of our time depends, whose absence lengthens life, whose presence ends. Thy sleep perpetual bursts the vivid bolds by which the soul attracting the body holds : common to all, of every sex and age, for nought escapes thy all-destructive rage. Not youth itself thy clemency can gain, vigorous and strong, by thee untimely slain. In thee the end of nature’s works is known, in thee all judgment is absolved alone. No suppliant arts thy dreadful rage control, no vows revoke the purpose of thy soul. O blessed power, regard my ardent prayer, and human life to age abundant spare." (Orphic Hymn 87 to Thanatos, trans. Taylor, Greek hymns C3rd B.C. to 2nd A.D.)

In the earliest mythological accounts, Thanatos was perceived by poets as a fearsome, sword-wielding spectre, shaggy bearded and fierce of countenance. He was a harbinger of suffering and grief, and his coming was marked by pain. But Greek artists did not often follow this grim conception of Death.

In later eras, as the transition from life to death in Elysium
Elysium

In Greek mythology, Elysium was a section of the Greek Underworld . The Elysian Fields, or the Elysian Plains, were the final resting place of the souls of the heroic and the virtuous....
became a more attractive option, Thanatos came to be seen as a beautiful Ephebe
Ephebos

Ephebos , also anglicised as ephebe or archaically ephebus , is a Greek language word for an adolescent age group or a social status reserved for that age in Classical antiquity....
. He became associated more with a gentle passing than a woeful demise. Many Roman sarcophagi depict him as a winged boy, very much akin to Cupid. Modern renditions of Thanatos often assume the stereotypical cloaked and skeletal visage of the Grim Reaper.

Thanatos has also been portrayed as a slumbering infant in the arms of his mother Nyx, or as a youth carrying a butterfly
Butterfly

A butterfly is an insect of the Order Lepidoptera. Like all Lepidoptera, butterflies are notable for their unusual Biological life cycle with a larval caterpillar stage, an inactive pupal stage, and a spectacular metamorphosis into a familiar and colourful winged adult form....
(the ancient Greek word "????" can mean soul, butterfly, or life, amongst other things) or a wreath of poppies
Poppies

Poppies can refer to:*Poppy - the plant*The Poppies - other uses*"Poppies", a song by Patti Smith Group from their 1976 album Radio Ethiopia...
(poppies were associated with Hypnos and Thanatos because of their hypnogogic traits and the eventual death engendered by overexposure to them). He is often shown carrying an inverted torch (holding it upside down in his hands), representing a life extinguished. He is usually described as winged and with a sword sheathed at his belt. In Euripides
Euripides

Euripides was the last of the three great tragedy of classical Athens . Ancient scholars thought that Euripides had written ninety-five plays, although four of those were probably written by Critias....
' Alcestis
Alcestis (play)

Alcestis is an Classical Athens tragedy by the Classical Greece playwright Euripides. It was first produced at the Dionysia in 438 BCE. Euripides presented it as the final part of a tetralogy of unconnected plays in the competition of tragedies, for which he won second prize; this arrangement was exceptional, as the fourth part was norma...
(438 BCE), he is depicted dressed in black and carrying a sword. Thanatos was rarely portrayed in art without his twin brother Hypnos.

In Psychology and Medicine
According to Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud , born Sigismund Schlomo Freud , was an Austrian psychiatrist who founded the psychoanalysis of psychology. Freud is best known for his theories of the unconscious mind and the defense mechanism of Psychological repression and for creating the clinical practice of psychoanalysis for curing psychopathology through dialogue...
, humans have a life instinct - which he named 'Eros' - and a death drive, which is commonly called (though not by Freud himself) 'Thanatos'. This postulated death drive allegedly compels humans to engage in risky and self-destructive acts that could lead to their own death. Behaviors such as thrill seeking, aggression, and risk taking are viewed as actions which stem from this Thanatos instinct. However, from a scientific
Science

In its broadest sense, science refers to any systematic knowledge or practice. In its more usual restricted sense, science refers to a system of acquiring knowledge based on scientific method, as well as to the organized body of knowledge gained through such research....
viewpoint, the notion of Thanatos continues to be highly controversial.

Thanatophobia is the fear of things associated with or reminiscent of death and mortality, such as corpses or graveyards. It is also known as Necrophobia
Necrophobia

Necrophobia or thanatophobia is the fear of death or dead things as well as things associated with death . Necrophobia is derived from Greek nekros for "Dead body" and -phob- for "fear"....
, although this term typically refers to a singular fear of dead bodies rather than a fear of death in general.

Thanatology
Thanatology

Thanatology is the academic, and often science, study of death among human beings. It investigates the circumstances surrounding a person's death, the grief experienced by the deceased's loved ones, and larger social attitudes towards death such as ritual and memorialization....
is the academic and scientific study of death among human beings. It investigates the circumstances surrounding a person's death, the grief experienced by the deceased's loved ones, and larger social attitudes towards death such as ritual and memorialization. It is primarily an interdisciplinary study, frequently undertaken by professionals in nursing, psychology, sociology, psychiatry, social work and veterinary science. It also describes bodily changes that accompany death and the after-death period.

Thanatophoric dysplasia
Thanatophoric dysplasia

Thanatophoric dysplasia is a severe inherited skeleton disorder characterized by extremely short limbs and folds of extra skin on the arms and legs....
, so named because of its lethality at birth, is the most common lethal congenital skeletal dysplasia with an estimated prevalence of one in 6,400 to one in 16,700 births. It's name is derived from Thanatophoros, meaning 'Death Bearing' in Greek.

Euthanasia
Euthanasia

Euthanasia refers to the practice of ending a life in a painless manner. Many different forms of euthanasia can be distinguished, including euthanasia and human euthanasia, and within the latter, voluntary and involuntary euthanasia....
is the act or practice of ending the life of an individual suffering from a terminal illness or an incurable condition, as by lethal injection or the suspension of extraordinary medical treatment. Euthanasia means 'Good Death' in Greek. The Thanatron, built by Doctor Jack Kevorkian
Jack Kevorkian

Jack Kevorkian is a former pathologist. He is most noted for publicly championing a terminal patient's right to die via physician-assisted suicide; he claims to have assisted at least 130 patients to that end....
, was a device used to aid in the suicide of his patients by euthanasia.

In Popular Culture
The name Thanatos often appears in popular culture, usually with some connotation of Death but with little real connection to the Greek Myths. Thanatos is a common name for characters in various fictional works, including video games, TV shows, anime, and comic books.

Incarnations of Immortality
Incarnations of Immortality

Incarnations of Immortality is the name of an eight-book fantasy series by Piers Anthony. The first seven books each focus on one of seven supernatural "offices" in a fictional reality and history parallel to ours, with the exception that society has advanced both magic and modern technology....
is an eight-book fantasy series by Piers Anthony
Piers Anthony

Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob is an English American author in the science fiction and fantasy genres, publishing under the name Piers Anthony....
. In the first book, On a Pale Horse
On a Pale Horse

On a Pale Horse is a fantasy novel by Piers Anthony. It is the first of eight books in the Incarnations of Immortality series....
, the office of Death is assumed by a suicidal photographer named Zane
Characters from the Incarnations of Immortality

This article contains brief biographies for major characters from Piers Anthony's Incarnations of Immortality series. The protagonist of each book in the series, as well as some other major characters, are listed here....
, after he kills the previous holder of the title. The name Thanatos is used here as something of an official title for the erstwhile Incarnation of Death. Zane, as Thanatos, appears in a supporting role in the other books.

Thanatos
Thanatos (Saint Seiya)

The Greek god is one of the antagonist deities featured in the universe of the Manga Saint Seiya, authored by Masami Kurumada, that was later adapted to Anime....
is one of the antagonistic deities featured in the universe of the Manga Saint Seiya
Saint Seiya

, also known as Knights of the Zodiac, is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Masami Kurumada, and later adapted to anime....
, authored by Masami Kurumada
Masami Kurumada

is a Japanese people mangaka and writer, known for specializing in fighting manga featuring bishonen. He is famous as the creator/author of popular manga, such as Ring ni Kakero, Fuuma no Kojirou, Saint Seiya and B't X....
, that was later adapted to Anime. As in Greek mythology, he is the personification of mortality and death, and the twin brother of Hypnos
Hypnos (Saint Seiya)

The Greek god is one of the antagonist deities featured in the universe of the Manga Saint Seiya, authored by Masami Kurumada, and later adapted to Anime....
. In Kurumada's mythos, he is a subordinate of Hades
Hades (Saint Seiya)

is a List of Greek mythological figures and serves as the primary antagonist in the last story arc of the Saint Seiya manga written and illustrated by Masami Kurumada, later adapted to anime....
, the Emperor of the Darkness and ruler of the Underworld. He is a sworn enemy of the protector goddess of the Earth, Athena
Athena (Saint Seiya)

The Greek goddess Athena is one of the main characters in the Manga Saint Seiya, authored by Masami Kurumada, and later adapted to Anime. A character with a substantial importance in the universe of Saint Seiya, she was created by Kurumada based on the mythologic persona of the same name....
.

Thanatos appears as one of the main Protagonist's Personae in the video game Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3. When the main character first summons Orpheus, Thanatos brutally dismembers him, like in the legend of the death of Orpheus
Orpheus

Orpheus was a legendary figure, probably from Thracian origin, venerated by the Greeks and Thracians of the Classical age as a chief among poets and musicians, and the perfector of the lyre invented by Hermes....
. Thanatos is the final persona from the Death Arcana and is obtained by completing the social link with Pharos. Also, Thanatos' appearance is that of a grim warrior surrounded by a mantle of metal coffins.

In the computer game Chaos Legion
Chaos Legion

Chaos Legion is a third-person hack and slash video game developed and published by Capcom. The video game is based on of Tow Ubukata's novel of the same name....
, Thanatos can be controlled by the player as one of the Legion, but it is shred into many pieces that the player must collect throughout the game. In Disciples II: Dark Prophecy
Disciples II: Dark Prophecy

Disciples II: Dark Prophecy is a Personal computer game by Strategy First that was released on January 24 2002. The game is the sequel to the 1999 game Disciples: Sacred Lands, and has become significantly more successful in terms of both sales and popularity than its predecessor....
, Thanatos is a monster that the Undead Horde can summon.

Thanatos features as an adversary or class of enemy in the MMORPGs Ragnarok Online
Ragnarok Online

|genre = MMORPG|modes = Multiplayer| ratings = Game Rating Board: 12+aDeSe: +13Computer Entertainment Rating Organization: B Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association: 11+Entertainment Software Rating Board: T and MapleStory
MapleStory

MapleStory is a List of freeware games, 2D computer graphics, side-scrolling massively multiplayer online role-playing game developed by the South Korean company Wizet....
. He appears as a boss in Secret of Mana
Secret of Mana

Secret of Mana, known in Japan as , is an action role-playing game developed and published by Square Co. for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System....
, Resident Evil: Outbreak and Tales of the World: Narikiri Dungeon 2
Tales of the World: Narikiri Dungeon 2

is a spin-off from the Tales made by Namco. The game was released exclusively in Japan for the Game Boy Advance on October, 2002. Tales of the World: Narikiri Dungeon 2's characteristic genre name is ....
.

Thanatos is the name given to the Carrier class capital ship of the Gallente race in the MMORPG EVE Online
EVE Online

Eve Online is a video game by CCP Games. It is player-driven persistent-world massively multiplayer online game set in a science fiction space setting....
, and the name is used for a class of Battlemech in the fictional BattleTech
BattleTech

BattleTech is a wargaming and science fiction franchise, launched by FASA Corporation. In 2000, FASA properties were acquired by WizKids. WizKids in 2003 was later purchased by Topps, Inc....
universe.

In the story album Moira
Moira

Moira may refer to:...
by the Japanese band Sound Horizon
Sound Horizon

Sound Horizon, abbreviated by fans as Sanhora, is a Japanese musical group with composer Revo as the leader. They call themselves the 'fantasy band'....
, Thanatos is played by Revo. He is portrayed as "god of death" and the "dead man's king". He is the last son of Moira, the goddess of fate, and seeks to "save" humans from her cruelty by bringing them to his kingdom.

The name Xanatos occurs infrequently as a variation of Thanatos in fiction. The machiavellian millionaire David Xanatos
David Xanatos

David Xanatos is one of the primary characters of the animated series Gargoyles . In the series, he is the founder, owner and CEO of Xanatos Enterprises and a member of the Illuminati ....
is a frequent nemesis (and occasional benefactor) of the main protagonists in the Gargoyles
Gargoyles (TV series)

Gargoyles is an United States animated television series created by Greg Weisman. It was produced by Greg Weisman and Frank Paur and aired from October 24, 1994 to February 15, 1997....
animated series. A recurring antagonist in the Jedi Apprentice series by Jude Watson
Jude Watson

Jude Watson is a novelist for young readers, usually preteens, she now lives in New York. She is probably best known for her Star Wars works, which are usually set in the prequel era and involve the Jedi....
is named Xanatos. Xanatos was Qui-Gon Jinn
Qui-Gon Jinn

Qui-Gon Jinn is a fictional character in the Star Wars fictional universe, portrayed by Liam Neeson in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace. He also appears in the Star Wars Expanded Universe of comic books, video games, and novels....
's first failed Padawan, who is commonly attempting to get revenge on either Qui-Gon or the entire Jedi Order.

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