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- Psychopomps (from the Gr**** word ψυχοπομπός, psychopompós, literally meaning the 'guide of souls') are creatures, spirits, angels, demons, or deities in...
- examples being Patroclus and Hector in the Iliad). Alternatively, Hermes Psychopompos could also be relied upon to lead the deceased to the underworld and...
- men. pompos, conveyor related to the underworld. pompaios, conductor. psychopompos, conveyor or conductor of souls, and psychogogue, conductor or leader...
- Charon with punt pole standing in his boat, receiving Hermes psychopompos who leads a deceased woman. Thanatos Painter, ca. 430 BC...
- His duties as a Guide of the Dead were sometimes su****ded by Hermes Psychopompos.[citation needed] The god's character is established by Hesiod in the...
- souls escaped and to them necessarily returned, and that Hermes was Psychopompos, Evoker and Revoker of souls. The vase-painting is in fact only another...
- Thanatos generally represents a gentle death. Thanatos, led by Hermes psychopompos, takes the shade of the deceased to the near s**** of the river Styx...
- heart. By Tertullian's time, Mercury was identified with Gr**** Hermes psychopompos, who led souls into the underworld. Tertullian describes these events...
- her magic works best at night Hermes, the messenger god who acted as psychopompos Hypnos, personification of sleep, twin of Thanatos, his Roman counterpart...
- Wisconsin [c. May 27, 1918] On a Battlefield in Picardy [May 30, 1918] Psychopompos: A Tale in Rhyme [late 1917-summer 1918] A June Afternoon [June 1918]...