Hierophant: High Priest

(Chapter 3) - an archaic word for priest, now used only in connection with the Tarot; not, as some have suggested, "an elephant who inherits lotsa money."

a master teacher who is able to manifest what they teach and initiate their students into such knowledge

an interpreter of sacred mysteries or arcane knowledge

The role of the hierophant in religion is to bring the congregants into the presence of that which is deemed holy. The word comes from Ancient Greece, where it was constructed from the combination of ta hiera, "the holy," and phainein, "to show." In Attica it was the title of the chief priest at the Eleusinian Mysteries.