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Dr Harout.......

Congratulations Grand Caliph

Take a bow, and I'll take your photo

Brian

Hi Brian,
this means you've been away for quite some time.
Waiting for the next degree...

I like the first smiley.

What about the new (or old?) pic of yours? Is this traditional Armenian clothing? Otherwise I'd say it looks like Palestinean But then my knowldge about Armenian and middle east culture and dress code is rather limited

bossel wrote:What about the new (or old?) pic of yours? Is this traditional Armenian clothing? Otherwise I'd say it looks like Palestinean But then my knowldge about Armenian and middle east culture and dress code is rather limited

Definitely not Armenian, rather Arabic as Caliphs (Khalif) in the past.

While we're at it---what is a Heirophant supposed to be? I never heard this word before, and my English-German dictionary also doesn't know this word ...

-- Olaf

01af wrote:While we're at it---what is a Heirophant supposed to be?

I'm not sure that you should be one if you don't know what you are

And I haven't got a clue, but I bet Wikipedia will know: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heirophant

01af wrote:While we're at it---what is a Heirophant supposed to be? I never heard this word before, and my English-German dictionary also doesn't know this word ...-- Olaf

Hab ich auch schonma gefragt: http://www.photoclubalpha.com/forum/vie ... f=21&t=590

I've asked this before and didn't get any good answer. I guess we're just stuck being heirophants Or is it hierophant??

Heirophant is a rather obscure word from the Tarot, from various 1980s computer games - according to Wiki:

"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, ..."

but Wiki spells it ie not ei though it is pronounced it like 'hire' not 'hair' or 'here'. Which in English, like German, normally means ei not ie (though we are much less consistent than German and Scots is even worse - the Scots verb for to enquire or ask, to speir, is pronounced like spear).

I can not find it in any regular dictionary (I can no longer read my huge Oxford with the magnifier and small print) and both spellings are in widespread use. My spelling probably comes from some Dungeons and Dragons type of game twenty years ago, nothing very academic!

David

bonneville wrote:

01af wrote:While we're at it---what is a Heirophant supposed to be?

I'm not sure that you should be one if you don't know what you are
And I haven't got a clue, but I bet Wikipedia will know: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heirophant

and since posting this I seem to have become a hierophant too. (hope there's a cure available )

bonneville wrote:... I seem to have become a hierophant too. (hope there's a cure available )

Just a few more posts (as much as you did by now ) and you'll enter the world of the mafias, becoming an oligarch... Cheer up, then it'll be very easy to buy the A900, or even someone may bring as a gift (or bribe as some might put it)

David Kilpatrick wrote: I can not find it in any regular dictionary (I can no longer read my huge Oxford with the magnifier and small print) and both spellings are in widespread use. My spelling probably comes from some Dungeons and Dragons type of game twenty years ago, nothing very academic!
David

I thought the dyslexic was me...
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/hierophant
I'll check at home at the Dictionary of religions, by Mircea Eliade.

BTW, the day I get into the Gand Califa status, can we change the name to Wizard/Brujo? Chaman is too new age for my taste..