Meaning: The manifestation of the holy or sacred through a temporal object or being serving as a figure for worship.
Hierophany is from the Ancient Greek hierós, “sacred, holy sign” and phaínō, “show, appear”, and was possibly coined by Mircea Eliade, a Romanian religious historian and philosopher, in his book “The Sacred and the Profane”.
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