In sculpture and in the drama, in Aristophanic farce and in hieratic rituals, in pictorial art and in the stream of literature, the phallus is transcendent.
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Hieratic
/ˌhaɪ(ə)ˈɹætɪk/
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The witch, repository of hieratic lore and folk legends and occult arcana, became the distributor of philtres and unguents, electuaries and pastilles, herbs and charms and incantations - directed toward sexual pleasures and amatory satisfactions.
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The papyrus was written in hieratic, a cursive form of hieroglyphics.
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Some of the more hieratic sculptures leave the viewer curiously unmoved.
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