hierostoli

Updated: February 12, 2026

And the holy apparel with which the Hierostoli adorn the statues of these deities, which is partly of a dark and gloomy and partly of a more bright and shining colour, seems aptly enough to represent the notions which this doctrine teaches us to entertain of the divine nature itself, partly clear and partly obscure.

Sir E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis) Budge - Legends of the Gods : The Egyptian Texts, edited with Translations