Personification is the representation of a thing or abstraction as a person. It is, in other words, considered an embodiment or an incarnation. In the...

kə-LUM-bee-ə), also known as Lady Columbia, Miss Columbia is a female national personification of the United States. It was also a historical name applied to the...

A national personification is an anthropomorphic personification of a state or the people(s) it inhabits. It may appear in political cartoons and propaganda...

entities. It is considered to be an innate tendency of human psychology. Personification is the related attribution of human form and characteristics to abstract...

Personifications of death are found in many religions and mythologies. In some mythologies, a character known as the Grim Reaper (usually depicted as a...

represented by personifications, often loosely shown as a female classical goddess. Examples include Marianne, the national personification of the French...

Latin: [ɡɛrˈmaːnia]) is the personification of the German nation or the Germans as a whole. Like many other national personification symbols, she appeared first...

Lady Justice (Latin: Iustitia) is an allegorical personification of the moral force in judicial systems. Her attributes are scales, a sword and sometimes...

Personification, the attribution of human form and characteristics to abstract concepts such as nations, emotions and natural forces like seasons and...

personification of Russia is traditionally feminine and most commonly maternal since medieval times. Most common terms for national personification of...

However, as can be seen from the image, it was also used as a national personification. The symbolic depiction of a country as a woman called by the Latin...

Britannia (/brɪˈtæniə/) is the national personification of Britain as a helmeted female warrior holding a trident and shield. An image first used by the...

Nature (sometimes known as Mother Earth or the Earth Mother) is a personification of nature that focuses on the life-giving and nurturing aspects of...

divine personification of fairness. Aesculapius, the Roman equivalent of Asclepius, god of health and medicine. Aeternitas, goddess and personification of...

Auahitūroa is a male Māori deity, personification of comets, and the origin of fire. His consort is Mahuika, the goddess of fire. Māori mythology E. Best...

Early European personifications of America, meaning the Americas, typically come from sets of the four continents: Europe, Asia, Africa, and America. These...

Zealandia is a national personification of New Zealand. In her stereotypical form, Zealandia appears as an evidently Western European woman who is similar...

Hellas or Ellada is the personification of the nation of Greece, dating back to Ancient Greece. There was a desire for unification in Greece, and Hellas...

period as a personification of the Roman state. Her depiction seated with a shield and spear later influenced that of Britannia, personification of Britain...

There are a number of deities and personifications associated with seasons in various mythologies, traditions, and fiction. Kheimon, from Greek kheima...

Pet humanization is the practice in pet culture of treating companion animals with a level of care, attention and luxury relatively higher than for the...

Father Time is a personification of time. In recent centuries he is usually depicted as an elderly bearded man, sometimes with wings, dressed in a robe...

or 'freedom', pronounced [liːˈbɛrt̪aːs̠]) is the Roman goddess and personification of liberty. She became a politicised figure in the late republic. She...

Ordinal-linguistic personification (OLP, or personification for short) is a form of synesthesia in which ordered sequences, such as ordinal numbers, days...

(which has the same initials as United States) is a common national personification of the federal government of the United States or the country in general...

(pronounced [iˈtaːlja turˈriːta]; lit. 'Turreted Italy') is the national personification or allegory of Italy, in the appearance of a young woman with her head...

Bharat Mata (Bhārat Mātā, Mother India in English) is a national personification of India (Bharat) as a mother goddess. Bharat Mata is commonly depicted...

Hispania is the national personification of Spain. The antecedent of this representation were some coins on which there was a horseman holding a lance...

Hibernia is a national personification of Ireland. She appeared in numerous cartoons and drawings, in particular, during the nineteenth century. As depicted...

Melita is a national personification of Malta. The name originated from the Punic-Roman town of Melite (Μελίτη, Melite in Ancient Greek), the ancient...