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Hieros

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Hieros (ἱερός) is Greek for "holy" or "sacred". It may refer to:

See also

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  • All pages with titles beginning with Hieros
  • All pages with titles containing Hieros
  • Hiero (disambiguation)
  • Hiera, a monotypic moth genus in the subfamily Arctiinae
  • Hierapolis, a Hellenistic Greek city built on the site of a Phrygian cult center of the Anatolian mother goddess Cybele, in Phrygia in southwestern Anatolia
  • Hierarch, an officer of a church or civic authority who by reason of office has ordinary power to execute laws
  • Hierarchy, an arrangement of items that are represented as being "above", "below", or "at the same level as" one another
  • Hieratic, a cursive writing system used for Ancient Egyptian
  • Hierodeacon, a monk who has been ordained a deacon or deacon who has been tonsured monk in Eastern Orthodox Christianity
  • Hierogamy, a sacred marriage that takes place between gods, especially when enacted in a symbolic ritual where human participants represent the deities
  • Hieroglyph, the formal writing system used in Ancient Egypt for writing the Egyptian language
  • Hieromonk, a person who is both monk and priest in the Eastern Christian tradition
  • Hieronymus, the Latin form of the Ancient Greek name Ἱερώνυμος (Hierṓnymos), meaning "with a sacred name"
  • Hierophant, a person who brings religious congregants into the presence of that which is deemed holy
  • Hierophany, a manifestation of the sacred
  • Hierotopy, the creation of sacred spaces viewed as a special form of human creativity and also a related academic field where specific examples of such creativity are studied