What if: Torrent was a cucumber?

Ladies and gentlemen, here is a photo of a herd of Torrents in real life Japan:

The cucumbers are obviously horses and the eggplants are obviously ox.

These vegetable sculptures are known as “shouyrou-uma” (spirit-horses) or “ushi-uma” (ox-horses) in Japan. , traditionally constructed in Japan as part of Obon, the three day festival honouring the spirits of the dead.

During Obon, the spirits that the cucumbers and eggplants represent are believed to carry the spirits of ancestors back to the world of the living (the horse-cucumber being fast) and then to return them to the afterlife afterwards (the ox-eggplant being slow).

Ushi-uma fall within the class of mythical beings that are believed to ferry the souls of the dead to the afterlife (see: Death, Mercury, Black Dogs, Charon, Anubis etc.). Anthropologists call them psychopomps.

The tradition of constructing model ox-horses out of cucumbers and eggplants is derived from a much more common belief in a pair of psychopomps known as “ox-head” and “horse-face”, two mythological beings that exist in many south-east asian belief systems that are believed to collect the spirits of the dying and lead them into the underworld.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ox-Head_and_Horse-Face

"Ox-head" and "Horse-face" are almost always described as a pair. In fact they are usually described as a single pairing “ox-head-horse-face”.

I believe that Torrent is Elden Ring’s version of the psychopomp “ox-head-horse-face” for the following reasons:

1. Torrent is a spirit.

2. Torrent transports the Tarnished, someone that died before entering the Lands Between (i.e., a psychopomp).

3. Torrent meets the Tarnished shortly after their first death in the Lands Between.

4. Torrent literally has an ox’s head and the face of a horse.

I mean, just look at him.

OTHER THEORIES:

Sinners ride to heaven on shaman and creates holy crafting material. https://www.reddit.com/r/EldenRingLoreTalk/comments/1euaynr/what_if_jarring_shaman_was_japanese/

The Crucible is a spiritspring and people keep building on them. https://www.reddit.com/r/EldenRingLoreTalk/comments/1evy9xm/people_keep_building_holy_sites_on_spiritspings/

Ways to make, grow or tame gods. https://www.reddit.com/r/EldenRingLoreTalk/comments/1faxejq/shinto_how_to_commune_invoke_tame_give_birth_to/

Godfrey is a champion sumo wrestler. https://www.reddit.com/r/EldenRingLoreTalk/comments/1ew0jvm/what_if_godfrey_was_japanese/