Psychopomp

//ˈsaɪkəʊpɒmp//

Synonyms for "psychopomp" (5 found)

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33 translations across 30 languages.

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Ancient Greek

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  • ψυχοπομπός noun (entity who assists souls)

Basque

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  • psikopompo noun (entity who assists souls)

Bavarian German

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  • Psychopomp noun (entity who assists souls)
  • Psychopompos noun (entity who assists souls)

Belarusian

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  • псыхапо́мп noun (entity who assists souls)
  • псіхапо́мп noun (entity who assists souls)

Catalan

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  • psicopomp noun (entity who assists souls)

Chinese Mandarin

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  • 灵魂向导 noun (entity who assists souls)

Dutch

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  • psychopompos noun (entity who assists souls)
  • zielengeleider noun (entity who assists souls)

Esperanto

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  • psiĥopompo noun (entity who assists souls)

Estonian

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  • psühhopomp noun (entity who assists souls)

Finnish

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  • psykopompos noun (entity who assists souls)

French

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  • psychopompe noun (entity who assists souls)

German

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  • Psychopomp noun (entity who assists souls)

Greek

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  • ψυχοπομπός noun (entity who assists souls)

Hungarian

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  • pszükhopomposz noun (entity who assists souls)

Italian

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  • psicopompo noun (entity who assists souls)

Japanese

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  • お迎え現象 noun (entity who assists souls)

Latin

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  • psȳchopompus noun (entity who assists souls)

Lithuanian

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  • psichopompas noun (entity who assists souls)

Luxembourgish

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  • Psychopompos noun (entity who assists souls)

Norwegian Bokmål

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  • psykopomp noun (entity who assists souls)

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Polish

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  • psychopomp noun (entity who assists souls)

Portuguese

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  • psicopompo noun (entity who assists souls)

Romanian

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  • psihopomp noun (entity who assists souls)

Russian

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  • психопо́мп noun (entity who assists souls)

Sicilian

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  • psicupompu noun (entity who assists souls)

Spanish

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  • psicopompo noun (entity who assists souls)

Swedish

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  • psykopomp noun (entity who assists souls)

Thai

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  • ยมทูต noun (entity who assists souls)

Ukrainian

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  • психопомп noun (entity who assists souls)

Sample sentences

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As the souls of the departed are symbolized as rats, so is the psychopomp himself often figured as a dog. Sarameias, the Vedic counterpart of Hermes and Odin, sometimes appears invested with canine attributes; and countless other examples go to show that by the early Aryan mind the howling wind was conceived as a great dog or wolf.

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It is generally assumed that the sun goddess functions in the Shapash hymn as psychopomp, transporter of the dead to and from their netherly abode.

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These intermediaries take various forms: the psychopomps of the Neo platonists, the angelic beings of ritual magic, the spirit guides of theosophy, the aliens of modern Ufologists, and the neopagan gods which are a feature of late twentieth-century alternative thought.

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For most of us, Dr Wilder Penrose was our amiable Prospero, the psychopomp who steered our darkest dreams towards the daylight.

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