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These are the reapers I’m familiar with.

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Ah! It’s been a while.

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Explanation: The bust depicted is of the great Carthaginian general Hannibal, who terrorized the Romans for the entirety of his military career. In the course of the Second Punic War, he contributed significantly to the death toll of the Romans by his repeated and overwhelming victories, which resulted in the deaths of ~1/5th of the Roman male citizen population at the time.

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If memory serves me right, the mexican one, isn’t really mexican, even the cult was created by an immigrant… And adopted by the narcos as a way to have some fixation on a divinity that would protect them while they do crimes.

You’d have to check the different pantheons of our history since there could be multiple gods of death (or entities that act like a grim reaper).

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The Mayan deities were all God/Goddess of X and Death.

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Practically… Yeah, lol.
But I meant non of them were depicted as the one in the picture, which is the Santa Muerte and there were many other cultures with their own entities besides the Mayans

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What you are referring to is Santa Muerte and you are right.

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Exactly, and that’s the one depicted in the meme

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Scandinavian:

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Know where I’m moving before I die.

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Korean one has style

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They are called Jeoseung Saja.

In Korean mythology, Jeoseung Saja acts like the Grim Reaper, escorting souls—both good and bad—from the physical world to the netherworld. Unlike the singular Grim Reaper of Western lore, the Jeoseung Saja are a class of spectral bureaucrats responsible for this task.

The Jeoseung Saja themselves are not individual deities but rather servants under the authority of King Yeomna, the ruler of the Korean underworld. King Yeomna oversees the judgment of souls and determines their fate after death, with the Jeoseung Saja acting as his emissaries, executing their duties with steadfast dedication.

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