Related to the funerary art with its meditations on mortality were the representations of the famous Danse Macabre, whose first known appearance was in the Church of the Holy Innocents cemetery in Paris, dated at 1424 or 1425. In these widely distributed series of images, Death, embodied as a skeleton, carries off members from each strata of society to remind viewers that death levels all of society's arbitrary hierarchies. The levelling tendency, though turned horrible, belongs to the Carnival world.