Ontology:Q76,10

1. mistaken quest to steal immortality from the gods

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mistaken quest to steal immortality from the gods

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QID references [Item] 1:(-)1:(-)1

610 as carnomancy number

Black Adytum

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mythical narrative

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Journey to the West

Epic of Gilgamesh

SCP-001 proposal Black Adytum

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Usage notes

Even as the Grim Reaper may be considered a kind of god, tropes involving tricking Death are probably different from this one. The consistent thread here across both Buddhist- and Greek- or Sumerian-style mythologies is mortals not properly understanding the difference between gods and mortals or the supposed "secret knowledge" they have to "become" gods. In a sense, stories that work like this are almost necessarily stories that treat death as a kind of physical process and do not personify Death as a further god or celestial bureaucrat.