The Death is an Arcana in the Persona series. It is the thirteenth numbered card in the Major Arcana, numbered XIII13, following the Hanged Man and preceding the Temperance.
A Tarot de Marseille Death cardA Rider-Waite-Smith Death card
In tarot, the Death is the thirteenth of the 21 trump cards, which are called "Major Arcana" in esoteric usage. The imagery originates from Italian tarocchi decks. The Death card typically features a skeletal figure wielding a scythe (the Grim Reaper); in some decks, the skeleton is riding a horse. The skeleton is often accompanied by corpses or dismembered body parts of people of various social statuses, showing that Death comes to all the same. The Tarot de Marseille omits the card's name.
The Rider-Waite-Smith deck dresses the skeleton in armor, replaces the scythe with a banner featuring a white "Mystic Rose" on a black field (representing life), and depicts it riding a white horse. The people nearby are alive though one awaits his end.[1] Esotericists often interpret Death as an allegory for transformation into the next stage of one's life.[1]
Arthur Edward Waite lists the following divinatory meanings in The Pictorial Key to the Tarot: "End, mortality, destruction, corruption; also, for a man, the loss of a benefactor; for a woman, many contrarieties; for a maid, failure of marriage projects. Reversed: Inertia, sleep, lethargy, petrifaction, somnambulism; hope destroyed."[2]
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Nomenclature
The term used in Japanese, Chinese, and Korean literally means "death god".
Names in Other Languages
Language
Name
Meaning
English
Death
Japanese
死神Shinigami
Grim Reaper
Simplified Chinese
死神Sǐshén
Grim Reaper
Traditional Chinese
死神Sǐshén
Grim Reaper
French
La Mort
Death
German
Tod
Death
Italian
Morte
Death
Korean
사신死神Sasin
Grim Reaper
Polish
Śmierć
Death
Brazilian Portuguese
Morte
Death
Russian
СмертьSmert’
Death
Peninsular Spanish
La Muerte
Death
Turkish
Ölüm
Death
References
↑ 1.01.1The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1922), Arthur Edward Waite. Published by William Rider & Son Limited. (2nd ed.) pp. 120-123.
↑"The Greater Arcana and Their Divinatory Meanings", The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1922), Arthur Edward Waite. Published by William Rider & Son Limited. (2nd ed.) p. 285.
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