The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

In lines 374-377, the narrator explains that “Under the keel nine fathom deep, / From the land of mist and snow, / The spirit slid: and it was he / That made the ship to go." (Pg. 23) Who is moving the ship at the request of the angelic spirits?

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That would be the spirit of the land of mist and snow .