which is another form of psychopomp work.

In Filipino culture, one of the roles of the goddess Magwayen is being a psychopomp. Ancestral spirits (anito) also function as psychopomps. When the dying call out to specific dead persons (e.g. parents, partners), the spirits of the latter are supposedly visible to the former. The spirits, who traditionally wait at the foot of the death-bed, retrieve (Tagalog: