Psychopomp (noun)
sai-koh-pomp
A person who conducts spirits or souls to the other world, as Hermes or Charon.
First recorded in 1860–65, psychopomp is from the Greek word psȳchopompós conductor of souls. See psycho-, pomp
Example sentences
“He’s focusing on “psychopomp work” – the guiding of newly dead souls into the afterlife.”
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