Wednesday, December 11, 2013

Hierophant!!!

So I learned an awesome new word today which describes this class perfectly: Hierophant. It comes from two Greek words: hieros, meaning sacred and phainein, meaning to show or reveal. The current definition of the word is this:

hierophant (plural hierophants)
  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.
This is what we have been doing all semester; interpreting sacred mysteries (though we didn't always find answers). Or in modern day's habit of turning any noun in to a verb, we have been hierophanting! (No that's not actually a word in the dictionary, I made it up).

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