" Mother, sometimes in my wanderings I have met spirits of the dead hovering around their earthly homes and sometimes the mortals, too, can see them in the dark of the moon by the light of their fires and torches.
There are those spirits who drift about restlessly but they mean no harm.
I spoke to them, Mother. They seem confused and many do not even understand their own state. Is there no one in the netherworld who receives the newly dead? "

― Charlene Spretnak , Lost Goddesses of Early Greece: A Collection of Pre-Hellenic Myths