Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A hieroglyphic symbol; a sacred ideograph.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A form of sacred or hieratic writing.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
sacred symbol ,letter orwriting - noun
hieroglyph
Etymologies
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Examples
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The Mexican hierogram was formed by the intersecting of two great Serpents, which described the circle with their bodies, and had each a human head in its mouth.
Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Albert Pike 1850
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The portals of all the Egyptian Temples are decorated with the hierogram of the Circle and the Serpent.
Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Albert Pike 1850
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Itazura’s earth-maze — or “labyrinth,” as he insisted on calling it — was a long, uninterrupted path painstakingly drawn into the soil in the shape of an ancient “magic hierogram,” modeled after that found in the Egyptian temple of Amenemhet III.
Time Was Perry, Steve 1998
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"The plan on which Abury was built, is that sacred hierogram of the Egyptians and other ancient nations, the circle and snake.
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