Vocabulary Word: “Hierophant”

Hierophant

A hierophant (Ancient Greek: ἱεροφάντης) is a person who brings religious congregants into the presence of that which is deemed holy.

As such, a hierophant is an interpreter of sacred mysteries and arcane principles.

The word comes from ancient Greece, where it was constructed from the combination of ta hiera (‘the holy’) and phainein (‘to show’).