| Purification is one of the shaman's tasks, along with healing, psychopomp work, and communicating with nature spirits. |
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| Most practitioners will be used to psychopomp work, and will be able to locate the spirit and guide it on to wherever it's supposed to be. |
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| He is also a healer and a psychopomp, one who accompanies the dead to their otherworldly domain. |
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| In pre-revolutionary Iran, when someone died, the women gathered for a ceremonial meal presided over by a sort of psychopomp who would lead the company in sharing memories of the dead person. |
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| The movement for a Hippocratic oath for business is already running out of steam. Mr Nohria is more persuasive as an evangelist than as a psychopomp. |
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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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| 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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| Two other gods represented by the planet Venus are Quetzalcoatl's ally Tlaloc who is the god of rain, and Quetzalcoatl's twin and psychopomp, who is named Xolotl. |
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