Hierophant (續：宗教 單字大集合)

hierophant



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導師,解說者,神職者

[hahy-er-uh-fant]



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–noun 

1. (in ancient Greece) an official expounder of rites of worship and sacrifice. 

2. any interpreter of sacred mysteries or esoteric principles; 



mystagogue

[mis-tuh-gawg, -gog] (神祕教義信仰者)





2.5. 猜謎 

Crypto



2.55 巫術

Harridan



1.66 宗教



。傳道者

mystagogue

hierophant 

hieroglyphic 

pilgrimage

Jean and Pierre are two [threadbare] vagabonds who are making their way from Paris to Spain on a pilgrimage [to] Santiago de Compostela,

Structured like a [winding] religious pilgrimage, Stalker moves cautiously and slowly through its paces as the three men move closer toward the metaphorical Holy Center at the heart of the Zone.

acolyte

But Kevin Smit [acolytes] would insist that is the point:

protégé

Garrel was a [protégé] of Eustache and planned this work as an homage.

when the title character takes on a young [protégé] (a quietly effective Michael Pitt,

Accompanied by his faithful [protégé] Michel, the pair travels to New York by plane and eventually to New Orleans by car.

apostle

Have mercy on us. Make us worthy to share eternal life with Mary... the apostles and with all the saints... 耶穌的十二使徒 (宗徒) 之一

So, says the Bible, do all the apostles of Satan.

apostate n. a. 

a person who forsakes his religion, cause, party, etc

You must be devoid of pity. And the woman? She is an apostate of hell. She will die before permitting this.

apostatize

Never you apostatize of your parents nor of your uncles, nor of your mother nor brothers, nor of the place where you have been born.

apostolic

Christ in the yard and John the Baptist in here. Are things that bad? If the new Spain is Catholic and apostolic...

epistle

St. Peter preached the epistles to the apostles looking like that.



pontificate

For [longtime] Allen fans, it's a kick to have him filming in New York City again, to see his characters walk through the town while pontificating [on] every subject imaginable. 

But the downside is that what they say just isn't all that funny most of the time. Sure, there are laughs, especially in Evan Rachel Wood's [dumb]-girl delivery, but the film's Bush-era red state-vs.-blue state [attitude] suddenly feels out of synch with Obama in the White House.

papacy

papal

of or pertaining to the pope 

several parchment [documents], a few parades, a little papal [diplomacy]

laity

as distinguished from the clergy, or particular profession

Circuitous and sharply abrupt in execution, the short subject jibes [at] the temptations thrust at his somewhat naive hero by both the [religious] and the [laity]



hagiography

Later we [learn] that he has lied to her about another important subject. He’s no saint, and the film never veers into hagiography. 聖徒傳





。冷酷祭典

Benediction 

Eucharist 

tabernacle, an ornamental receptacle for the reserved Eucharist, now generally found on the altar.

sacrament 

rubric, a direction for the conduct of divine service or the administration of the sacraments, inserted in liturgical books.

liturgical

Liturgical music is heard as Nikolai kneels in his underwear.

orgy

What is it with elder statesmen of cinema sending handsome young men on creepy, addictive quests that lead to wealthy and powerful people with a more than passing interest in black masses and [orgies]? (古希臘、羅馬) 祕密祭神儀式

ordain

[Pre]-ordained, you found his photograph. Pick up the Dogra Magra novel.

Today’s the day that David Cronenberg will receive the highest award in the gift of the French government when he is [ordained] into the Légion d’Honneur.

preordain

Little boy scenes preordaining the [rest] of the movie, plate smashing domestic [strife], [deathbed] scenes, old age makeup sadness scenes, Nooooo; It's like Cliches R Us up in here.

tonsure 

corona, the tonsure of a cleric. 削髮儀式

anoint

an avowed fan who in Esquire once [anointed] Anderson "the next Scorsese"

embrocation

Have we got any embrocation?



。教會活動

oratorio

musical composition based upon a religious theme, without action, costume, or scenery

This is followed by close-ups of the soldiers dancing with their [sultry] African dream girls

—a vision of sexual glory [accentuated] by the flashing Christmas lights that constitute the minimalist disco decor

—and then by images of the shirtless recruits exercising in the heat of the day to excerpts from Benjamin Britten's Billy Budd [oratorio].

evensong

placebo

"placebo" (天主教) (為逝者唱之) 晚頌

vesper

of or pertaining to evening

vesper [bell]

Finally there is his anguish as he dutifully rises to conduct vesper [services] in an empty church.

curfew

You're gonna get us busted for curfew.

I want a curfew. I want to be grounded for sleeping with a 35-year-old schizophrenic. I want rules and boundaries, because what I've learned is that, without them, all life is, is a series of surprises.

plangent 

resounding loudly, esp. with a plaintive sound, as a bell

Which is to say that Mister Lonely—a plangent fable of [faith], [childhood's] end  

peal

a loud, prolonged ringing of bells

At the end of the film they get their response in a [great] savage ironic peal.





。聖經故事

scripture

Actually, the notion of an Italian [goth] queen reincarnated as a [bleached]-blonde, suthun-accented, [scripture]-quoting abuser of herself and her kid isn't nearly as punishing as Argento's fashionable refusal to tell us anything much except that hell is for children.

rosary

Did Mrs. Manion say how she had sworn to her husband? Yes, sir. She said she had sworn on a rosary. (天主教的) 玫瑰經,誦經用的念珠,玫瑰園



Samson

(Why waste time with street [brawls] when he could be fundraising?) What they don't understand is that, closet Nietzschean that he is, Danny is casting himself as another [Samson]. (聖經) 參孫 (舊約士師記 13-16)

Jezebel

... to keep at bay the advances of this precocious jezebel. 傑若粕 (《聖經》故事人物,以邪惡淫蕩出名)



scatology

eschatology

who has just finally delivered the eschatological [sermon] on class that has been building up in him. (神學) 末世論,來世論

The eschatological story [occasions] the kind of grave philosophical and spiritual inquiry that has defined Tarkovsky's movies. Shot by Ingmar Bergman's longtime cinematographer Sven Nykvist, The Sacrifice contains some of the most powerful images in Tarkovsky's monumental [oeuvre]. Perhaps it's most transcendent moment is the [penultimate] scene, an epic, six-minute-long take that stands as one of the wonders of cinema.

chiliast

"chiliastic" 千年至福說之信奉者

consubstantiation

transubstantiation

like discussions on the differences between [con]substantiation and [tran]substantiation, 【宗】聖體共在論【宗】聖餐變體論

lammas

It was upon a lammas night. 聖彼得入獄日,八月一日收穫節





。神職人員

。教會

。教堂內部

Parochial 



。異端褻瀆

。猶太教

。印度教 

Harridan

















Hierophant