hierophanically

Adverb

hierophanically (comparative more hierophanically, superlative most hierophanically)

1. In a hierophanic (or hierophanical) manner.
   • Above all, the mystery cults of the ancient world provided man with a god on which he could have a hold. The god was individuated enough to be a person, born hierophanically by a real bull or goat or pig, physically slaughtered, and physically consumed, or symbolically by means of real substitutes...1983, Henry O[rrin] Thompson, editor, The Global Congress of the World's Religions: Proceedings, 1980–1982, Washington, D.C.: Global Congress of the World's Religions, →OCLC, page 285
   • This disquieting insight may also give rise to the exhilarating possibility that there may be a transcendent realm outside of the physical, visible world of everyday existence, which can periodically manifest itself hierophanically in moments of gnosis.2007 May, Jeffrey Lamar Howard, Heretical Reading: Freedom as Question and Process in Postmodern American Novel and Technological Pedagogy (unpublished Ph.D. dissertation), Austin, Tx.: University of...