单词 | hierophany |
释义 | hierophanyn. A manifestation of the sacred. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > religion > [noun] > description hierography1656 hierology1883 hierophany1899 1899 W. R. Inge Christian Mysticism i. 8 Our guide on the upward path, the true hierophany of the mysteries of God, is love. 1952 Stud. Philol. 49 44 The voices, heard by Dante, often are veiled... Little wonder that Dante is frightened by such a mysterious..hierophany. 1959 W. R. Trask tr. M. Eliade Sacred & Profane Introd. 8 The sacred tree, the sacred stone..are worshipped precisely because they are hierophanies, because they show something that is no longer stone or tree but the sacred, the ganz andere. 1972 Jrnl. Amer. Acad. Relig. Sept. 334 The chronicle of man's religions is composed of hierophanies—the manifestations of the sacred in whatever forms, at all times and in all places. 1991 Descant Summer 88 Then the whole world of nature was a continuous, evolving hierophany. And man was dancing and singing and gawking at the heart of it. 2009 Observer (Nexis) 26 July (Review Bks. section) 19 The Crying of Lot 49..packing an intense metaphorical punch about revelation, hierophany, meaning and connection that is far too complex to reduce to precis. 2016 A. Golub & J. Peterson in M. Tomlinson & T. P. Tengan New Mana xii. 316 Eliade..proposed a global comparative study of the culturally distinct shaping of hierophany, or this universal experience of the sacred. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1899 |
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