{"id":217,"date":"2017-05-04T04:26:13","date_gmt":"2017-05-04T04:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lastarcher.com\/author\/blog\/?p=217"},"modified":"2017-05-04T04:26:13","modified_gmt":"2017-05-04T04:26:13","slug":"psychopomps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastarcher.com\/author\/blog\/?p=217","title":{"rendered":"Psychopomps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Psychopomp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wikipedia<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><b>Psychopomps<\/b> (from the Greek word \u03c8\u03c5\u03c7\u03bf\u03c0\u03bf\u03bc\u03c0\u03cc\u03c2, <i>psuchopompos<\/i>, literally meaning the &#8220;guide of souls&#8221;)\u00a0are creatures, spirits, angels, or deities in many religions whose responsibility is to escort newly deceased souls from Earth to the afterlife. Their role is not to judge the deceased, but simply to provide safe passage. Appearing frequently on funerary art, psychopomps have been depicted at different times and in different cultures as anthropomorphic entities, horses, deer, dogs, whip-poor-wills, <em><strong>ravens<\/strong><\/em>, crows, owls, sparrows and cuckoos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Wikipedia: Psychopomps (from the Greek word \u03c8\u03c5\u03c7\u03bf\u03c0\u03bf\u03bc\u03c0\u03cc\u03c2, psuchopompos, literally meaning the &#8220;guide of souls&#8221;)\u00a0are creatures, spirits, angels, or deities in many religions whose responsibility is to escort newly deceased souls from Earth to the afterlife. Their role is not to judge the deceased, but simply to provide safe passage. Appearing frequently on funerary art, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastarcher.com\/author\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastarcher.com\/author\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastarcher.com\/author\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastarcher.com\/author\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastarcher.com\/author\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lastarcher.com\/author\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":218,"href":"https:\/\/lastarcher.com\/author\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions\/218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastarcher.com\/author\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastarcher.com\/author\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastarcher.com\/author\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}