hierophanies

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hierophanies

  1. plural of hierophany
    • 1991, Robert D. Baird, Category Formation and the History of Religions, page 75:
      For example, the symbolism of the moon implies a system of hierophanies which cluster about the moon.
    • 1994, Subrata Kumar Chakrabarti, “1: Hierophany”, in Offshore Structure Modeling, page 7:
      The major themes in Eliade’s thought are symbol, myth, and ritual1, hierophanies, the sacred and the profane, the coincidentia oppositorum, the repetition of archetypal structures2, illud tempus, and homo religiosus.
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