Hieros

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

• Ancient Greek religion

See also

• 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