psychopomp

/sahy-koh-pomp/US // ˈsaɪ koʊˌpɒmp //

精神疗法,精神病患者,心理学家,心理医生

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : a person who conducts spirits or souls to the other world, as Hermes or Charon.

The rle of general conductor of souls to the realms of the underworld, however, came to be given to Hermes, the psychopomp.
Hermes himself, the Psychopomp, shall lead, and Malahide shall welcome us.
The winds were now the maruts, or spirits of the breeze, serving Indra, the sky-god; again they were the great psychopomp himself.
Hermes is the god whose mission it is to lead souls down to the realm of Hadesthe psychopomp, as in this office he is called.
As the souls of the departed are symbolized as rats, so is the psychopomp himself often figured as a dog.