hieros logos (ιερος λογος)

(Language: Greek)

Short Description: sacred tale, sacred word or book

Long Description: sacred tale, sacred word or book (e.g. possessed by the initiation priests of Dionysus and Pythagoreans); there were logoi (accounts, explanations) within practical mysteries and additional logoi adduced from outside; they were both exoteric and esoteric, about the mysteries and within the mysteries, developed on three different hermeneutical levels: those of myth, allegory, and metaphysics.

Sources: The Golden Chain: An Anthology of Platonic and Pythagorean Philosophy, by Dr. Algis Uždavinys