In Attica Hierophant was the title of the chief priest at the Eleusinian Mysteries. It was an office inherited within the Phileidae or Eumolpidae families. The office of Hierophant, High Priestess and Dadouchousa Prietess were all inherited within the Phileidae or Eumolpidae families, and the Hierophant and the High Priestess were of equal rank.Pomeroy, Sarah B, Goddesses, whores, wives, and slaves: women in classical antiquity, Schocken Books, New York, 1995 It was the task of the High Priestess to impersonate the roles of the goddesses Demeter and Persefone in the enactement during the Mysteries. A. E. Waite wrote that the Hierophant:...symbolizes also all things that are righteous and sacred on the manifest side. As such, he is the channel of grace belonging to the world of institution as distinct from that of Nature, and he is the leader of salvation for the human race at large. He is the order and the head of the recognized hierarchy, which is the reflection of another and greater hierarchic order; but it may so happen that the pontiff forgets the significance of his symbolic state and acts as if he contained within his proper measures all that his sign signifies or his symbol seeks to shew [sp] forth. He is not, as it has been thought, philosophy—except on the theological side; he is not inspiration; and his is not religion, although he is a mode of its expression . Hierophant of the Memes%DIFDELCMD < %DIFDELCMD < %%% In a modern reference, Tom Wolfe described Richard Dawkins as the "Hierophant of the Memes" in his essay entitled "Digibabble, Fairy Dust, and the Human Anthill" .
In Attica Hierophant was the title of the chief priest at the Eleusinian Mysteries. It was an office inherited within the Phileidae or Eumolpidae families. The office of Hierophant, High Priestess and Dadouchousa Priestess were all inherited within the Phileidae or Eumolpidae families, and the Hierophant and the High Priestess were of equal rank.Pomeroy, Sarah B, Goddesses, whores, wives, and slaves: women in classical antiquity, Schocken Books, New York, 1995 It was the task of the High Priestess to impersonate the roles of the goddesses Demeter and Persefone in the enactement during the Mysteries. A. E. Waite wrote that the Hierophant:...symbolizes also all things that are righteous and sacred on the manifest side. As such, he is the channel of grace belonging to the world of institution as distinct from that of Nature, and he is the leader of salvation for the human race at large. He is the order and the head of the recognized hierarchy, which is the reflection of another and greater hierarchic order; but it may so happen that the pontiff forgets the significance of his symbolic state and acts as if he contained within his proper measures all that his sign signifies or his symbol seeks to shew [sp] forth. He is not, as it has been thought, philosophy—except on the theological side; he is not inspiration; and his is not religion, although he is a mode of its expression %DIFDELCMD < %DIFDELCMD < %%% .
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In a modern reference, Tom Wolfe described Richard Dawkins as the "Hierophant of the Memes" in his essay entitled "Digibabble, Fairy Dust, and the Human Anthill"