hierography

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἱερός (hierós, “sacred”) + γράφω (gráphō, “to write”).

hierography means sacred writing. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 91 out of 100.

Why this word is great

HIEROGRAPHY — [Noun] The practice, study, or corpus of sacred writing; a systematic treatise on religious subjects. From Ancient Greek ἱερός (hierós, "sacred") + γράφω (gráphō, "to write"). Unlike hieroglyphics, which denotes a specific pictorial script, or theography, which narrates the acts of deities, hierography is the solemn craft of inscribing the divine itself. It is the monk's illuminated vellum, the sutra pressed into palm-leaf, the stark commandment cut into stone—the human hand attempting to fix the eternal in perishable form, where the act of writing becomes a rite, a permanent dwelling built to house the ineffable.

noun

Sacred writing.“The history of religion is not content with describing special religions (hierography), or with relating their vicissitudes and metamorphoses (the history of religions); its aim is to show how religion, considered generally as the relation between man and the superhuman powers which he believes, has developed in the course of ages among different nations and races,”