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Michael, Row the Boat Ashore
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"Michael, Row the Boat Ashore" is a traditional spiritual first noted during the American Civil War at St. Helena Island, one of the Sea Islands of South Carolina. The best-known recording was release
A man works a cornfield on St. Helena Island, where "Michael Row the Boat Ashore" was first attested.
A man works a cornfield on St. Helena Island, where "Michael Row the Boat Ashore" was first attested.
Gullah basket
Gullah basket
Psychopomp
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Psychopomps are creatures, spirits, angels, demons, or deities in many religions whose responsibility is to escort newly deceased souls from Earth to the afterlife.
Michael, Row the Boat Ashore
…to Heaven. According to William Francis Allen, the song refers to the Archangel Michael. In the Catholic tradition, Michael is often regarded as a psychopomp or conductor of the souls of the dead. The spiritual was also recorded on Johns Island during the 1960s by American folk musician and musicologist Guy…
Relief from a carved funerary lekythos at Athens: Hermes as psychopomp conducts the deceased, Myrrine, a priestess of Athena, to Hades, c. 430–420 BC
Relief from a carved funerary lekythos at Athens: Hermes as psychopomp conducts the deceased, Myrrine, a priestess of Athena, to Hades, c. 430–420 BC (National Archaeological Museum of Athens)