Grim reaper

“Grim reaper” – awesome free live wallpaper with image of Death with scythe and fiery sword!

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Death as a fictitious image is found in myths and legends of all world cultures since immemorial times.
Since initially a man could not explain the cause of the death of a living being, there were ideas about death as a real being.
In the European culture, death is often depicted as a skeleton with a braid, clothed in a long black robe with a hood.
Before the advent of the plague, death, like love, was portrayed with an arrow.
But it was an image of an elective, not an accidental death.
After plague epidemics, when death mowed everyone indiscriminately, it began to be depicted with a scythe.
The subsequent wars and revolutions with millions of violent deaths only strengthened this image, which has reached our days.
The theme of death has always interested and attracted man.
Each of us has his own idea of death.
Most often it is due to external causes - culture, religion, society.
In the culture of the consumer society, where material values prevail, there is no place for death.
All material values with the advent of death lose their value.
The task of the consumer society is to improve the standard of living.
In the consumer society, everything has its price.
Sometimes the value of life itself can be expressed in monetary terms.
Why is death most often depicted as a figure in a dark robe and with a scythe?
Sometimes it's an old woman, but most often it's a skeleton.
In ancient times, death was portrayed as a bony old woman in a black cloak and with a scythe, with which she kills her victims.
The persistence of this image, preserved practically unchanged to the present day, is explained by the fact that this image is not fairy and not folklore, but the fact of visions of dying people.
Death in many antique frescoes and engravings is strikingly similar.
There is an opinion that artists from different eras depicted Death from the stories of their contemporaries who met her.
During the epidemic of the plague there was some change in the image.
In this terrible time, Death received dragon wings and a thick snake tail.
Horror inspires a picture of the winged Plague with a mocking smile and a bloody scythe, galloping through the streets, leaving a pile of corpses behind...
When the illness was gone, Death in the paintings lost its wings.
Death most often bears the image of a woman - a disgusting, emaciated old woman with bony hands and feet.
Death in the form of a skeleton with long and sharp oblique in hands is also popular.
Sometimes the braid was replaced by rake or sword.
Sometimes the attributes of Death are a sickle - a symbol of the moon, night, aging and death.

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