![]() Lola – A popular name with Spanish and Latin origins, this translates to “sorrow.” It’s also the name of a 19th-century Irish dancer who gained notoriety through her affair with King Louis I.Lilith - This Hebrew name means “of the night” or “night demon.” In Jewish folklore, this was the first wife of Adam and the wife of Lucifer, making her closely associated with death.Libitina - A Latin name meaning “death.”.Khalida - This name has Arabic origins and it means “immortal,” “everlasting,” and “deathless.”.Keres - This Greek name means “death spirits.”.Keket – An ancient Egyptian figure who ruled the night alongside her partner, Kek, this name means “darkness.”.Kalma - In Finnish mythology, this is the name of the goddess of death.Itishree - This is a Hindi name that means “the end.”.Hunapo - Of Maori origins, this name means “hidden darkness.”.Hel - This is the name of the goddess of the dead in Norse mythology.Hecate – The Greek goddess of demons, magic and witchcraft, this name translates to “far off.”.Freyja - In Norse mythology, this is the goddess of love, fertility, war, and death.Ernaline - This is a Celtic name that means “battle to the death” and an Old German name that means “earnest” or “vigorous.”.Ereshkigal – A figure in Sumerian mythology, this “lady of the great Earth” presided over the land of the dead.Dolores - This Latin name means “lady of sorrows.”.Desdemona - This Greek name means “misery” or “ill-fated.”.Deianira - A name with Greek origins that means “man destroyer.”.Killed by one of her many daughters, Coatlicue is considered the patron of those who died in childbirth. Coatlicue – This Aztec goddess, whose name translates to “skirt of snakes,” was the mother of 400 children.Clotho - This is the name of one of the other three fates in Greek mythology.Cihuateteo – Aztec for “divine women,” these are believed to be the spirits of women who died during childbirth.Chiwa - An African name that means “death.”.Cessair – Meaning “sorrow” and “affliction,” this name belonged to an Irish lass who perished during Noah’s catastrophic flood in the Bible.Bronach – In the sixth century, this Irish woman (whose name means “sorrow” or “sadness”) helped shipwrecked sailors and rang a bell to announce troublesome waters.Bacia - A Ugandan name meaning “family deaths ruined the home.”. ![]() ![]() As the story goes, Atropos was responsible for cutting the thread, bringing death to the human associated with it. These were the divinities who oversaw human life. Atropos - In Greek mythology, this is one of the three fates.Asaka – A Japanese name that translates to “beautiful death.”.Angerona - This Latin name means “goddess of anguish.” Ango is the Latin word for to choke or strangle, making this title a description of a type of death.Amaya - Of Japanese origins, this name means “the end” or “night rain.”.Amaia - This Basque name means “the end” or “resolution.”.Allani – In Hurrian mythology, this is the goddess (or “lady”) who reigned over the shadowy underworld.Agrona - An Old English name meaning “goddess of strife and slaughter.” It is also an Old Celtic name meaning “battle” or “slaughter.” This is also the name of the Brythonic (Celtic) goddess of war and death.Adaliah - This biblical name means “one who draws water, poverty, cloud, or death.”.She represents the cloud of darkness or mist that envelopes people’s eyes in death. Achlys - This is a Greek name that means “mist.” It is also the epithet of the goddess of misery. ![]() ![]()
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