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The same origin of sickle death

The legendary god of death is a big black robe, and his head is covered by the hat on the robe. He has never shown his face in front of anyone, only his eyes are shining red. Always hold a huge sickle in your hand, and the sickle is here to kill you.

Sickle In Greek mythology, Cronus cut off his father Uranus's genitals with a sickle. Later, the former was defeated by his son Zeus' lightning and was deposed and exiled. The sickle has always been the symbol of Cronus (Saturn in Latin). Before ancient Greece, he was regarded as the god of fertility. Later, people confused his name with Cronus, the incarnation of time, so the image of Cronus holding a sickle (or a scythe) became a symbol of the passage of time. In this sense, the sickle became a symbol of death.