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Psychopomp
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Psy´cho`pomp
n.1.(Myth.) A leader or guide of souls .
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Noun1.psychopomp - a conductor of souls to the afterworld; "Hermes was their psychopomp"
imaginary being, imaginary creature - a creature of the imagination; a person that exists only in legends or myths or fiction
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He will not be the psychopompos, or leader of souls, who guides the knight to the underworld.
Sancho as a thief of time and art: Ovid's Fasti and Cervantes' Don ... by de Armas, Frederick A. / Renaissance Quarterly
The earliest in date of the three, the Psychopompos Sarcophagus (now in the Museo dell'Opera del Duomo), is relatively unworn, suggesting a history for this tomb different from that of the other two, although it has been paired as a twin with the Marriage Sarcophagus (also in the Duomo museum) from their placement flanking the south doors of the Baptistry in the nineteenth century.
Medici funerary monuments in the Duomo of Florence during the ... by Paoletti, John T. / Renaissance Quarterly
 
 
 
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