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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 hi·ero·phant /ˈhaɪ(ə)rəˌfænt, haɪˈɛrəfənt/
 導師,解說者,聖職者

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Hi·er·o·phant n.  The presiding priest who initiated candidates at the Eleusinian mysteries; hence, one who teaches the mysteries and duties of a religion or an arcane discipline; an expositor; as, In his television series “Cosmos”, Carl Sagan became the foremost hierophant of modern cosmology..
 Syn: -- mystagogue.
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