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.
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)
Azrael
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Azrael is the canonical angel of death in Islam. An Angel with a similar name appears in the 16th century Classical Ethiopic version of Apocalypse of Peter, but as an angel of hell who avenges those w
Psychopomp
…and Jesus are thought of as psychopomps either as leading the dead to heaven or (as in the case of Peter) allowing them through the gates. In Islam, Azrael plays the role of the angel of death who carries the soul up to the heavens, acting by the permission of God. According to Rudyard Kipling, Azrael…
According to Brendan Cole, this painting of Azrael is linked to a 1892 poem by Delville called "Azraël" (published in his book Les Horizons Hantés)
A Six-Winged Seraph (Azrael) by Mikhail Vrubel, 1904