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Definition of Psychopomp
1. Noun. A conductor of souls to the afterworld. "Hermes was their psychopomp"
Definition of Psychopomp
1. n. A leader or guide of souls .
Definition of Psychopomp
1. Noun. One who assists the souls of the dead to the afterlife. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Psychopomp
Literary usage of Psychopomp
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Orpheus by George Robert Stow Mead (1896)
"Fabric., p. 350 ; but see my Plotinus, pp. 32 sy.). THE psychopomp. The presiding
deity of rebirth was Hermes, the psychopomp, or leader of souls. ..."
2. The Theosophical Review by Theosophical Publishing Society (London, England) (1896)
"The presiding deity of rebirth was Hermes, the psychopomp, or leader of souls.
Thus Proclus (Comment, on First Alcibiades) writes : " Hermes governs the ..."
3. Greek and Roman [mythology] by William Sherwood Fox (1916)
"To the Greek of today the Archangel Michael is as Hermes to the pre-Christian
Greek, being the psychopomp, the divine escort of souls to the afterworld, ..."
4. The New Englander by William Lathrop Kingsley (1879)
"... of children is often intrusted to them, and the appearance of mice prognosticated
of old the appearance of the preternatural rat-catcher and psychopomp. ..."
5. New Englander and Yale Review by Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight (1879)
"... rat-catcher and psychopomp." "Esau was believed to have been changed into a
terrible hairy devil Hairiness was a pretty general characteristic of devils ..."
6. The History of Religions by Edward Washburn Hopkins (1918)
"Woden means wind (Wode is a storm-demon) and is particularly the god who rushes
along with the Wild Hunt of souls, to whom he is psychopomp (hence as ..."
7. The History of Religions by Edward Washburn Hopkins (1918)
"Probably he was originally a local god of productivity in general; hence his
chthonic character, his office of psychopomp, and his control of riches (metal ..."
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