A hierophany is a manifestation of the sacred. The word is a formation of the Greek adjective hieros (, 'sacred, holy') and the verb phainein (φαίνειν, 'to reveal, to bring to light').
A hierophany is a manifestation of the sacred. The word is a formation of the Greek adjective hieros (, 'sacred, holy') and the verb phainein (φαίνειν, 'to reveal, to bring to light').
==Mircea Eliade== 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.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).