Motif
angel of death separating or receiving souls
angel_of_death_separating_or_receiving_souls
A motif of the Afterlife Navigation and Passage family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
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The Koran (Al-Qur'an) SECTION I. / SECTION II. / SECTION III / SECTION IV.; lines 3795-3850 confidence: high
Gabriel, Michael, Azral, and Israfil are named as especially favored angels with offices of revelation/decree-writing, protection, death/soul-separation, and sounding the resurrection trumpet; two guardian angels attend each person and record actions.
Azral separates souls from bodies, Jewish teaching names an angel of death who calls the dying by name, and the footnote says Raphael receives souls of those who die.
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