The exhibition of ancient statues, relics, and symbols, concealed from daily adoration (as in the Catholic festivals of this day), probably, made a main duty of the Hierophant.
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Hierophant
//ˈhaɪəɹəˌfænt//
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25 translations across 20 languages.
Ancient Greek
2 entries- ἱεροφάντης noun (ancient Greek priest)
- ἱεροφάντης noun (interpreter of sacred mysteries)
Bulgarian
1 entries- първожрец noun (ancient Greek priest)
Catalan
1 entries- hierofanta noun (ancient Greek priest)
Coptic
2 entries- ϩⲓⲉⲣⲟⲫⲁⲛⲧⲏⲥ noun (ancient Greek priest)
- ϩⲓⲉⲣⲟⲫⲁⲛⲧⲏⲥ noun (interpreter of sacred mysteries)
Dutch
2 entries- hiërofant noun (interpreter of sacred mysteries)
- opperpriester noun (ancient Greek priest)
Estonian
1 entries- hierofant noun (ancient Greek priest)
Finnish
1 entries- hierofantti noun (ancient Greek priest)
French
3 entries- hiérophante noun (ancient Greek priest)
- hiérophante noun (interpreter of sacred mysteries)
- hiérophante noun (one who explains or makes a commentary)
Galician
1 entries- hierofante noun (ancient Greek priest)
German
1 entries- Hierophant noun (ancient Greek priest)
Greek
1 entries- ιεροφάντης noun (ancient Greek priest)
Hungarian
1 entries- hierofáns noun (ancient Greek priest)
Italian
1 entries- ierofante noun (ancient Greek priest)
Japanese
1 entries- 聖師 noun (ancient Greek priest)
Occitan
1 entries- ierofanta noun (ancient Greek priest)
Portuguese
1 entries- hierofante noun (ancient Greek priest)
Romanian
1 entries- hierofant noun (ancient Greek priest)
Russian
1 entries- иерофа́нт noun (ancient Greek priest)
Sicilian
1 entries- jerufanti noun (ancient Greek priest)
Spanish
1 entries- hierofante noun (ancient Greek priest)
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If books are as provocative as you suggest, one would expect every librarian to utter the shrill screams of a hierophant, to clash ecstatic castanets in his silent alcoves!
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Most scholars name the rectangular enclosure anaktoron, locate in it the throne of the hierophant, and suppose that from it emanated the central revelation which occurred, in Plutarch's phrase, ‘when the anaktora were opened’.
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Thus I became the hierophant of those three worthy and talented men, who, in spite of their literary accomplishments, were not wise, since they were infatuated with occult and fabulous sciences, and believed in the existence of phenomena impossible in the moral as well as in the physical order of things.
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