OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 41864

psychopomp

/ˈsaɪkəʊpɒmp/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
psicopompo
A spirit, deity, person, etc., who guides the souls of the dead to the afterlife.
As the souls of the departed are symbolized as rats, so is the psychopomp himself often figured as a dog. Sarameias, the Vedic counterpart of Hermes and Odin, sometimes appears inv…
It is generally assumed that the sun goddess functions in the Shapash hymn as psychopomp, transporter of the dead to and from their netherly abode.
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