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This is hierophantic theater, as old as time, as young as the infancy of man.

From Time Magazine Archive

Huge papier-m�ch� puppets do a silent, hierophantic dance of death, as if Picasso's Guernica were unfolding in slow motion.

From Time Magazine Archive

Their lofty fantastic head-dresses, their voluminous and beautiful costume, and the solemn immobility of their hierophantic attitudes make them at first sight seem marvellous statues only.

From Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series by Hearn, Lafcadio

The most prominent of the impostors his accomplices referred it to Rutilianus's arbitration which of them should be selected to succeed to the prophetic office and wear the hierophantic oracular garland.

From Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 02 by Fowler, F. G. (Francis George)

Few of my readers would understand these hierophantic words, were I to leave them unexplained.

From What is Property? by Proudhon, P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph)