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Messengers of Death

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Divinity Atlas. "Messengers of Death." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/subcategories/mythicalcreature/messengers-of-death.

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Divinity Atlas. (n.d.). Messengers of Death. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/subcategories/mythicalcreature/messengers-of-death

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@misc{divinityatlas-messengers-of-death,
  author = {Divinity Atlas},
  title = {Messengers of Death},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/subcategories/mythicalcreature/messengers-of-death},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

Beings whose office is to summon or escort the dying, drawn here from the Hindu yamaduta, the messengers of Yama who come for a soul at the appointed time. The category is limited to figures who announce or fetch death rather than administer it. Excludes death spirits who personify death itself and servants of death who carry out its wider errands.

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