Psychopomp
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psychopomp-166-6575494
title:
Psychopomp
text:
Psychopomps are creatures, spirits, angels, demons, or deities in many religions whose responsibility is to escort newly deceased souls from Earth to the afterlife. Their role is not to judge the deceased, but simply to guide them. Appearing frequently on funerary art, psychopomps have been depicted at different times and in different cultures as anthropomorphic entities, horses, deer, dogs, whip-poor-wills, ravens, crows, vultures, owls, sparrows, and cuckoos. In the case of birds, these are of
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wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Entity believed to escort deceased souls to an afterlife
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychopomp
date created:
2002-09-10T02:51:06Z
date modified:
2024-08-29T19:22:10Z
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fields total:
13
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