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hierophant Definition

Hierophant
(n.) The presiding priest who initiated candidates at the Eleusinian mysteries

hierophant Bedeutung

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A hierophant is a person who brings religious congregants into the presence of that which is deemed holy. The word comes from Ancient Greece, where it was constructed from the combination of ta hiera, "the holy," and phainein, "to show." In Attica it was the title of the chief priest at the Eleusinian Mysteries. A hierophant is an interpreter of sacred mysteries and arcane principles.