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A hierophany is a manifestation of the sacred. The word is a formation of the Greek adjective hieros (Greek: ἱερός, 'sacred, holy') and the verb phainein (φαίνειν, 'to reveal, to bring to light').
Look up hierophany in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A hierophany is a manifestation of the sacred. The word is a formation of the Greek adjective hieros...
The Angkor Wat equinox is a solar phenomenon considered as a hierophany that happens twice a year with spring and autumn equinox, as part of the many astronomical...
paradigms in religious studies that persist to this day. His theory that hierophanies form the basis of religion, splitting the human experience of reality...
unambiguous Manifestation of God to man. Otherwise, the more general term hierophany is used. Some modern evangelical Christian Bible commentators, such as...
of opposition, but of complementarity, as the profane is viewed as a hierophany. French sociologist Émile Durkheim considered the dichotomy between the...
2020. Matheson, Sue (2017). "The Fall of a Domestic Angel: Horror and Hierophany in Rosemary's Baby (1968)". In Van Riper, A. Bowdoin; Miller, Cynthia...
opposition, but of complementarity, having interpreted the profane as a hierophany. The hermeneutics of the myth is a part of the hermeneutics of religion...
original association of 'divinity' is thus with 'bright' or 'shining' hierophanies in the sky. The Sumerian sign DIĜIR ⟨𒀭⟩ originated as a star-shaped...
astronomers. The site was instead probably governed by a spectacular hierophany which occurs at the summer solstice, when the Sun, viewed from the Sphinx...
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