Viduus [AKA "The Divider"]
Greek entity responsible for separating body from soul after death. Often
depicted as a reverse-negative shepherd and companioned by the metal owl
1
from the 1981 film
Clash of the Titans. Within the field of
post-Antiquity metaphysics, Viduus has been retroactively blamed for the
persistence of
bicameralism
in the Greek
Dark Ages, an epoch largely characterized by a visual reliance on
protogeometric patterns and the absence of any enduring semanical systems. His
presence was traditionally announced with the sounding of ominous, distant
bells.
1 As is often the case, the owl is not what it seems.