[MYTHOLOGY MEME] 4/4 Psychopomps – Baron Samedi
In Vodun, Baron Samedi is the head of the Guede, the loas of the dead. The Guede are known to be very unruly, usually speaking in crude language, and no longer heed to the rules and regulations of the living. In this way, they are a reminder that death is a universal constant, and everyone will eventually pass through into it, so we may as well live a little while we are here.
Baron Samedi is normally depicted as a skeleton dressed in a dark funeral suit, with a tophat, sunglasses, and usually smoking a cigar. He guards the cemeteries, and controls the crossroads between the earth and the dead. He is also at times a trickster, though generally known to be honest and realistic, for in death there is nothing to hide. [x]