"Don't urge me to leave you or to turn back from you. Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God. Where you die I will die, and there I will be buried. May the LORD deal with me, be it ever so severely, if anything but death separates you and me."Ruth to Naomi. The Book of Ruth: ( Read more... )

Agapē (IPA: /ˈægəpiː/[1]) (Gk. αγάπη [aˈɣa.pi]), is one of several Greek words translated into English as love. The word has been used in different ways by a variety of contemporary and ancient sources, including Biblical authors. Many have thought that this word represents divine, unconditional, self-sacrificing, active, volitional, and ( Read more... )

Star Troupe/Hoshigumi:

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Der Tod: Asaji Saki
Rudolph: Emao Yu

Thoughts:
Saki has an amazing appearance for Der Tod. Despite her rather feminine features, she manages the look and feeling of a man so well that by the end of this song, I'm ready to bet my hat that she really is the male personification of Death. However, this version of Yami ga ( Read more... )

From Wikipedia

Mors:In Roman mythology, Mors is the personification of death and equivalent to the Greek Thanatos. He is the son of the goddess of night, Nox, and is the brother of the personification of sleep, Somnus. Mors should not be confused with Mars, the god of war, Pluto, the god of the underworld, or Orcus, god of death and punisher of ( Read more... )

In Elisabeth, the personification of death is male. This, of course, has to do with the gender of the noun in German. Der Tod, Death - in masculinum. However, throughout the musical, it becomes quite clear that rather than being "male", Death harbours much more androgynous traits. In this way he represents the Western idea of the Angel of Death ( Read more... )