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)
- An ancient Greek priest who interpreted sacred mysteries, especially the priest of the Eleusinian mysteries.
- An interpreter of sacred mysteries or arcane knowledge.
- 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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