Mors

"Don't let my gender and affiliations fuel you, Ghost Rider. Thanatos and I are one and the same, simply the two sides of a coin. After all, what else is more universal than death?"

- Mors.

Mors is the Roman Second-Generation Primordial Deity of Darkness and Agony along with being the Roman Personification of Death, and is the offspring of Nox.

Overview
Her name literally means "death." She was the twin sister of Somnus – god and personification of sleep. Nox (Night) was their mother – the personification of the night. She resided in a portion of the remote cave provided by Somnus, the god of sleep, beside the river Lethe. Her counterparts are the Greek God Thanatos and the Hindu Goddess Mara.

When Mors is reaping, she has no bias in anything, able to kick her way into the hovels of the poor and the towers of kings equally. She is present at the ending the life of a person after the thread of their life has been cut by the Parcae. He also escorts the dead persons soul, or shade, down to the underworld's gate.

In stories, Mors is shown as a servant to the god Pluto or Dis Pater, ending the life of a person after the thread of their life has been cut by the Parcae, and of Mercury, messenger of the roman gods, escorting the dead person`s soul, or shade, down to the underworld's gate. Letus' antithesis is personified as Vita (Life).

Appearance
Mors is one of the deities to constantly change gender, more commonly taking a female form. She is usually depicted as a black or dark entity with a pale body with eager teeth.

In plays, she is usually depicted as a young man with black wings on his arms (symbolizing death), with the extinguished and inverted torch in his hand (symbolizing death), accompanied by Somnus. However, Roman art sometimes showed Mors properly as a woman.

Ovid depicts her as a hideous and cadaverous figure dressed in a winding sheet and holding a scythe and an hour glass, similar to Death himself.

Personality
"When it comes to death... we're happy to let him stay Greek."

- Hazel Levesque.

She was said to be similar to her Greek counterpart but is far more sadistic and playful. It should be noted that she was similar to the gentler depiction of Thanatos.

As Letum, she is similar to the older serious depiction of Thanatos though becomes more disciplined, militaristic, and warlik

Weakness
She is not immune to being tricked or resisted.

History
In one story, Hercules fought Mors in order to save his friend's wife.

When Jesus Christ was crucified by the Romans, Mors visited Jesus at the time of his temporary death where she remained near his feet.

Myth and Legends
Mors is often connected to Mars, the Roman god of war; Pluto, the god of the underworld; and Orcus, god of death and punisher of perjurers. Her presence in Roman mythology is confirmed, among others in the title of Novell’s atellana “Mortis ac Vitae iudicium” and the satire of Ennius “Mors ac Vita”, as well as in many other poets and through gravestone inscriptions.

The Latin noun for "death", mors, genitive mortis, is of feminine gender, but surviving ancient Roman art is not known to depict Death as a woman. Poets, however, are bound by the grammatical gender of the word. There are several main types of personifying death in poetry: as the cause of death, as a transition from life to death, as a state/stillness.

Horace writes of pallida Mors, "pale Death," who kicks her way into the hovels of the poor and the towers of kings equally. Seneca, for whom Mors is also pale, describes her "eager teeth." Tibullus pictures Mors as black or dark.

Mors is often represented allegorically in later Western literature and art, particularly during the Middle Ages. Depictions of the Crucifixion of Christ sometimes show Mors standing at the foot of the cross. Mors' antithesis is personified as Vita, "Life."

Trivia

 * She became known particularly through Lacedaemonian culture where twin statues of Mors and Somnus were placed side by side.
 * She lived in a cave found by her brother, near the Lete River.
 * Letus is the Latin word for Death.
 * Depictions of the Crucifixion of Christ sometimes shows Mors standing at the foot of the cross.
 * Letus is where lethal, an English word meaning 'Causing death' came from.
 * The French word Mort (the 't' is silent) which means Death is derived from Thanatos' other Roman name, Mors, which also means Death.

Image Sources

 * (Lady Grim Reaper.jpg) Lady Grim Reaper by GENZOMAN
 * (Mors Sculpture.jpg) Thanatos marble sculpture from the Temple of Artemis
 * (Mors (Death) coming for a miser in a painting by Hieronymus Bosch.jpg) Death and the Miser by Hieronymus Bosch
 * (Mors vincit omnia by satanen dal9kgo-fullview.jpg) Mors Vincit Omnia by satanen
 * (Morte2.jpg) Morte 2 by Ivan Solyaev