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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

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