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What does hierophant mean?

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Noun
  1. An ancient Greek priest who interpreted sacred mysteries, especially the priest of the Eleusinian mysteries.
  2. An interpreter of sacred mysteries or arcane knowledge.
  3. One who explains or makes a commentary.
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The hierophant of the sun-god made an effort to climb back on his pedestal.
Clearly this hierophant had achieved a social and political status similar to that enjoyed by Apollonios.
I'd no right to think anything at all about it, but I know some women take him for a hierophant.
We still have the prayer of the real Orpheus, which the hierophant recited in the old Greek mysteries.
In the sacraments of Nagualism, Woman was the primate and hierophant.
For the interpretation of Platonic doctrine a hierophant was needed.

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