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MACARIA: Greek goddess of blessed death ; mythology : MAKARIA |
 | | MACARIA: Greek goddess of blessed death ; mythology : MAKARIA |
 | | MAKARIA (or Macaria) was the goddess of (blessed) death, a minion of her parents Haides and Persephone. |
 | | She may have been a more merciful counterpart of the death-god Thanatos; or was perhaps somehow connected with the passage of souls to the Nesoi Makarioi (Islands of the Blest). |
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