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The Hierophant stands for righteousness, sacredness, hierarchical order, [6] orthodoxy, [7] and moral righteousness. He is an exoteric figure, in contrast to the esoteric symbolism of The High Priestess. [2] Reversed, the Hierophant can be interpreted as standing for unorthodoxy, originality, and gullibility. [7]
A hierophant (Ancient Greek: ἱεροφάντης, romanized: hierophántēs) is a person who brings religious congregants into the presence of that which is deemed holy. [1] As such, a hierophant is an interpreter of sacred mysteries and arcane principles.
The word hierophany recurs frequently in the works of religious historian Mircea Eliade, who preferred the term to the more constrictive word theophany, an appearance of a god.
The last legitimate hierophant at Eleusis, just before the extinguishing of the mysteries at the time of Alaric's invasion in 396 CE, traced his descent from Eumolpos. [2] The other family with a hereditary Eleusinian priesthood were the Kerykes .
Artistic rendition of a classical "mystagogue" A mystagogue (from Greek: μυσταγωγός, romanized: mystagógōs, lit. 'person who initiates into mysteries') is a person who initiates others into mystic beliefs, and an educator or person who has knowledge of the sacred mysteries of a belief system.
The Ten of Swords in the Sola-Busca tarot deck. The Ten of Swords is a Minor Arcana tarot card.. Tarot cards are used throughout much of Europe to play tarot card games. [1] In English-speaking countries, where the games are largely unknown, tarot cards came to be utilized primarily for divinatory purposes.
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The term direction of fit is used in the philosophy of intentionality to distinguish between types of representations.It is commonly applied in two related senses: first, to distinguish the mental states of belief and desire; [1] and second, to distinguish between types of linguistic utterances, such as indicative and imperative sentences.