answer:Well, I’m not sure exactly what you’re looking for, @Unbroken, but in Buddhism Mara is the personification of delusion. This is a common teaching method in Buddhism: aspects of the mind are represented as entities. Many of the positive qualities—wisdom, compassion, enlightened action, etc.—are personified as “bodhisattvas”. Mara is used the same way to represent the mental factors that obstruct enlightenment. Yama is the form of Mara that represents death. He’s often shown clutching the Wheel of Birth and Death in his claws. Our delusions about who we are, and about the nature of reality, cause us to see death as this demonic enemy that threatens to annihilate us. Awakening, as the Buddha did, is to see that Mara is all smoke and mirrors.