Albertus's illustration of Death playing chess from Täby kyrka inspired the famous scene in Ingmar Bergman's 1957 film The Seventh Seal, in which a knight (Antonius Block) plays chess with personified Death.
Mikaboshi inspired the Marvel Comics character of the same name, which was prominent during the Chaos War event as the mastermind behind it, and was revealed to be a personification of the Universe before creation.
As the personification of all that was evil, Apep was seen as a giant snake/serpent, or occasionally as a dragon in later years, leading to such titles as Serpent from the Nile and Evil Lizard.
Her principal seat was in Ashtishat (Taron), located to the North from Mush, where her chamber was dedicated to the name of Vahagn, the personification of a sun-god, her lover or husband according to popular tales, and had been named "Vahagn's bedroom".
An anthropomorphic personification of the river, Beverley Brook, appears as one of the daughters of Mama Thames in the 2011 novel Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch.
Lady Justice, goddess and personification of justice, often portrayed as wearing a blindfold
Chhaya is usually described as the mother of Shani, the god of the planet Saturn and a feared graha; goddess Tapti, the personification of river Tapti and a son Savarni Manu, who is destined to be the next and eighth Manu (progenitor of mankind) - the ruler of the next Manvantara period.
The arms consist of a shield featuring a lady in green representing Erin, the female personification of Ireland, based on the mythology of Ériu.
The woman is said by some to be a depiction of Zealandia, a common national personification of New Zealand during the first half of the 20th century.
The devas’ who were the personification of the basic natural elements, Agni (fire), Varuna (water), Vayu (air) went uncoordinated and havoc spread in the universe, As Indra (ether) was not able to administer and coordinate the Pancha bootha.
the Devil, believed in many religions, myths and cultures to be a supernatural entity that is the personification of evil and the enemy of God and humankind
Father Silas Lamson was a 19th-century American eccentric who would appear at abolitionist meetings, in a long white beard and white robe, and carrying a large scythe, in the fashion of Death or Father Time.
The arms feature Erin, the female personification of Ireland, and the golden harp, another symbol of Ireland.
The theatrical highlight in Brecht's stage work was her personification of Mother Courage.
John Hodgman (1971-), humorist and author best known for his personification of a PC in Apple's "Get a Mac" advertising campaign.
Because of the Order's control of Time, the valley is permanently reliving a perfect day, with the cherry blossom beginning to fall (which is too bad if you actually want cherries.) Fortunately for Lu-Tze, at the end of Thief of Time, Lobsang Ludd, the new personification of Time, makes a slight adjustment to some of the valley's trees so as to give his tutor his own "perfect moment".
The most famous is the 7 m sequence known as the Dance of Death on the south wall of the nave, representing people of all walks of life from kings and popes to beggars and babies being led by skeletons towards Death itself.
In Dibs, an account of a child therapy, Virginia Axline considered that perhaps the parents, "quite unconsciously...chose to see Dibs as a mental defective rather than as an intensified personification of their own emotional and social inadequacy".
Now known as the atheist Cult of Reason ideology, established by Jacques Hébert, Pierre Gaspard Chaumette and their supporters and intended as a replacement for Christianity, and was replete with ceremonious destruction of Christian relics, conversion of churches into Temples of Reason and the personification of Reason as a goddess; it also held such festivities as the Festival of Reason (or Festival of Liberty), dated on November 10 (20 Brumaire) 1793.
Kojiro, a character in Brave Fencer Musashi video game, a fictional personification of Sasaki Kojiro
"Ballo in Fa Diesis Minore" is based on Ingmar Bergman The Seventh Seal in which a man defies the personification of Death (lyrics are taken from an inscription of a Danse Macabre depiction at Clusone, near Bergamo); the melody is inspired by "Schiarazula Marazula", a medieval northern Italian theme which accompanied exorcism rites and which was collected by Giorgio Mainerio in his Primo libro de' balli (1578).
Lachesis (mythology), one of the Moirai the personification of destiny in Greek mythology
Here, the player fights one of the four wizards that serve as the dark prince's right-hand men, each of which becomes a larger boss when defeated (green becomes a Cyclops, blue becomes a magic-wielding knight, red becomes a giant dragon, and the yellow becomes what appears to be the Grim Reaper).
National personification of Wales, also called Dame Wales used in cartoons, most notably by Joseph Morewood Staniforth.
In Norse mythology, Máni is the male personification of the moon who crosses the sky in a horse and carriage.
Frau Minne, a personification of romantic love in German courtly tradition
Mr. Butts is sometimes accompanied by Mr. Jay, a large marijuana joint, along with Dum Dum (a personification of the NRA), and Mr. Suds (a personification of the liquor industry).
The semi-personification of eiresin will be noticed; and, according to Mannhardt, the branch embodies the tree spirit conceived as the spirit of vegetation in general, whose vivifying and fructifying influence is thus brought to bear upon the corn in particular.
In the play, Santa Claus deals with the increasing materialism and lust for knowledge around him and becomes consumed by it because of Death.
The presiding deity of the temple, Sri Shiv, as well as Parvati, Ganesh, Hanuman, Kartikey and Shaneshwara or Lord Shani (the personification of the planet Saturn) are worshipped with utmost reverence and devotion by multitudes of people from all over the locality.
In 1603, in the second edition of his treatise Iconologia, Cesare Ripa associated the symbol with the Italia turrita, and creates a modern version of Italy’s allegorical personification: woman with a star on top of a towered crown, therefore supplied with the Corona muralis and the Stella Veneris.
The church is well known for its beautiful and colorful paintings by Albertus Pictor, including a motif of Death playing chess.
The term thanatosensitive is derived from the ancient Greek mythological personification of death, Thanatos (Greek: Θάνατος (Thánatos), "Death"), which is itself a term associated with the notion of the death drive common to 20th-century post-Freudian thought.
Personification of the Moors, in their collective role as a medieval political force
John Dewey believed that the personification of knowledge in everyday practices was essential and the proactive question about the relationship between theory and practice connects to the idea of social responsibility.
He was praised in this role by the French ambassador, Maurice Paléologue, who called him 'the very personification of court life'.
The larger-than-life figure of bearded Chronos, the Greek personification of time, is traditionally nicknamed Hans von Thann by the Bernese.