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V The Hierophant
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I love the word
Hierophant. I have traced it back to the world of the ancient
Greeks who used it to describe a high priest of the Eleusinian
mysteries. It means to show or make known the sacred.
The Hierophant,
or Pope, or Priest, is a go-between for the world of men and the
world of Gods.
I decided to
make, and keep, the Hierophant female as I wanted to explore
that part of our communication with the divine, that part where
we do not need to rely on others but can look within our selves
for all of the answers we will ever need, and at the very least,
for confirmation and the feel of truth in what we learn from
others.
What you are
seeing in the painting is people who are crowded and moving
forward from the foreground all the way back to the hills on the
horizon. They are being led, or joined even, by a beautiful
woman spirit.
I see this as a
collective soul if you will, an arch-angel, a greater spirit of
humanity. The landscape here, where the woman resides, is one
where we are not separate and are all moving towards a common
goal, like the fingers of a hand.
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