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===Ancient religion=== Classical examples of a psychopomp are the [[Ancient Egyptian religion|ancient Egypt]]ian god [[Anubis]],<ref>{{cite web |last1=Greenberg |first1=Mike |title=Anubis: The Egyptian God of the Dead |url=https://mythologysource.com/anubis-egyptian-god-dead/ |website=mythologysource.com |access-date=3 November 2024}}</ref> the deity [[Pushan]] in [[Hinduism]],<ref name=":2">{{Cite book |last=Macdonell |first=Arthur Anthony |title=Vedic Mythology |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=1897 |pages=35–37}}</ref> the [[ancient Greek religion|Greek]] ferryman [[Charon (mythology)|Charon]],<ref name=lex/> the goddess [[Hecate]],<ref name="Charles M 1986 pp. 307–318">{{cite journal |last=Edwards |first=Charles M. |date=July 1986 |title=The Running Maiden from Eleusis and the Early Classical Image of Hekate |journal=[[American Journal of Archaeology]] |location=Boston, Massachusetts |publisher=[[Archaeological Institute of America]] |volume=90 |issue=3 |pages=307–318 |doi=10.2307/505689 |jstor=505689 |s2cid=193054943}}</ref> and god [[Hermes]],<ref name="transformer">RADULOVI, IFIGENIJA; VUKADINOVI, SNEŽANA; SMIRNOVBRKI, ALEKSANDRA – Hermes the Transformer Ágora. Estudos Clássicos em debate, núm. 17, 2015, pp. 45–62 Universidade de Aveiro. Aveiro, Portugal. [https://www.redalyc.org/pdf/3210/321037735002.pdf] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210907143318/https://www.redalyc.org/pdf/3210/321037735002.pdf|date=7 September 2021}} (PDF link)</ref> the [[Religion in ancient Rome|Roman]] god [[Mercury (mythology)|Mercury]],<ref name="Littleton">Littleton, C. Scott (Ed.) (2002). ''Mythology: The Illustrated Anthology of World Myth and Storytelling'' (pp. 195, 251, 253, 258, 292). London: Duncan Baird Publishers. {{ISBN|1-904292-01-1}}.</ref> the [[Norse mythology|Norse]] [[Valkyrie]]s,<ref name="ORCHARD36LINDOW104">Orchard (1997:36) and Lindow (2001:104).</ref> the [[Aztec mythology|Aztec]] [[Xolotl]],<ref>{{cite book |author=Johns |author-first=Catherine |title=Dogs: History, Myth, Art|publisher=Harvard University Press|year=2008|isbn=978-0-674-03093-0|p=25}}</ref> the [[Slavs|Slavic]] goddess [[Morana (goddess)|Morana]]<ref>{{Cite book |last=Kowalski |first=Piotr |title=Leksykon – znaki świata: omen, przesąd, znaczenie |date=1998 |publisher=Wydawnictwa Naukowe PWN |isbn=8301125616 |location=Warszawa; Wrocław |pages=609–615 |language=pl}}</ref> and the [[Etruscan religion|Etruscan]] [[Vanth]].<ref>Scheffer, C. 1991. "Harbingers of Death? The Female Demon in Late Etruscan Funerary Art" In ''Munuscula Romana'', edited by A. L. Touati, E. Rystedt, and Ö. Wikander, 43–50. Stockholm: Paul Ǻströms förlag. p. 57</ref>
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