Hieros vs Hierogrammates
The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 27 Apr 2006
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Roy C. Lackey — 27 Apr 2006, 05:07

Not to be pedantic but, several times recently "Hieros" has been used here
where the term was clearly not intended. It's an easy mistake to make; I did
it at least once myself, years ago, what with "Hierogrammate", "Hierarch",
"Hierodule" and such in use in the Urth Cycle.

But the Hieros are a breed apart. They were those bad, bad humans of a
previous universe who created the Hierogrammates. The Hieros did not survive
the death of that universe, but the Hierogrammates did. The Hierogrammates
created the Hierodules. (URTH, 137-38)

-Roy

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