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this application is a live wallpaper or screensaver of grim reaper live wallpapers set the app as live wallpaper to decorate your phone downloads grim reaper live wallpapers from our store page. we have the best collection of grim reaper live wallpapers. you can also download other live wallpaper in case you don’t find this lwp suitable for you, we had a vast lwp collection. enter the grim reaper, the black-cloaked, scythe-wielding personification of death. we all know exactly ­who he is and what he wants. he comes for every person, hourglass in hand, waiting for the last grain of sand to fall. dark death wallpaper.

when it does, he collects the soul with a well-practiced cut of his razor-sharp blade. it may not be a pleasant image, but it is clear and unmistakable. ultimately, this is the job of the grim reaper to put a human face on the concept of death. but why did humans feel compelled to make the grim reaper, well, so grim why not make him a friendly and helpful guide to the underworld, and why, for that matter, does he have to be a guy before you can have the grim reaper a personification of death you have to have death itself. in almost all cultures and religions, humans were first created as immortal beings who fell from their state of perfection. dark death wallpaper. the fall of adam and eve is the classic example, chronicled in the bible. conceptually, the angel of death was firmly entrenched in european religion and culture by the time of the middle ages. but an epidemiological event occurred in the late 14th century that would forever change how the average person viewed, and responded to, death. not surprisingly, death began to appear as a skeleton in artwork from this era.

in fact, most artists portrayed the skeletal form of death in similar ways everything about the grim reaper is imbued with meaning. the objects he carries, even the clothes he wears, tell us something about his nature and his intentions when he finally arrives. let's look at some of the symbolism, item by item. scythe. in early renderings, the reaper is shown holding arrows, darts, spears or crossbows. these are the weapons he uses to strike down his victim. dark death wallpaper. over time, a scythe came to replace these other instruments of death. a scythe was a tool used to reap, or cut, grain or grass. bringing this imagery to death was a natural extension of an agrarian society in which harvesting, dark death wallpaper, done in the fall, represented the death of another year. just as we harvest our crops, so does death harvest souls for their journey into the afterlife.