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Christianity. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse[ 1] are figures in the Book of Revelation in the New Testament of the Bible, a piece of apocalypse literature attributed to John of Patmos. Similar allusions are contained in the Old Testament books of Ezekiel and Zechariah, written about six centuries prior.
25,000,000 – 50,000,000 (estimated) The Black Death was a bubonic plague pandemic occurring in Europe from 1346 to 1353. It was one of the most fatal pandemics in human history; as many as 50 million people [ 2] perished, perhaps 50% of Europe's 14th century population. [ 3] The disease is caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis and spread by ...
Pestilence may refer to: Infectious disease. Pestilence, one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Pestilence (band), a Dutch death metal group. Pestilence (comics), a Marvel Comics supervillain, based on the biblical horseman. "Pestilence" ( Medici: Masters of Florence), a television episode.
The Plagues of Egypt ( Biblical Hebrew: מכות מצרים ), in the account of the Book of Exodus, are ten disasters inflicted on biblical Egypt by the God of Israel (Yahweh) in order to convince the Pharaoh to emancipate the enslaved Israelites, each of them confronting Pharaoh and one of his Egyptian gods; [ 1] they serve as "signs and ...
Indigenous victims (likely smallpox ), Florentine Codex (compiled 1540–1585) The Cocoliztli Epidemic or the Great Pestilence[ 1] was an outbreak of a mysterious illness characterized by high fevers and bleeding which caused 5–15 million deaths in New Spain during the 16th century. The Aztec people called it cocoliztli, Nahuatl for pestilence.
In Quake Mission Pack 2: Dissolution of Eternity the temple itself features a unique set of stained glass windows, displaying the four Riders of the Apocalypse: Pestilence, Death, War and Famine. In Quake 4 the convoys which carries the EMPs to the tetranode are called "War", "Famine", "Pestilence" and "Death".
A common term for the personification of death across Latin America is "la Parca" from one of the three Roman Parcae, a figure similar to the Anglophone Grim Reaper, though usually depicted as female and without a scythe. Mictlantecutli in the Codex Borgia. In Aztec mythology, Mictecacihuatl is the " Queen of Mictlan " (the Aztec underworld ...
Plague. (painting) Plague is an 1898 painting in tempera by the Swiss symbolist artist Arnold Böcklin, held in the Kunstmuseum Basel. It exemplifies the artist's obsession with nightmares of war, pestilence and death. The painting shows Death riding on a bat-like winged creature who travels through a street in a medieval European town.