Why this word is great
HIERONYMY — [Noun] The sacred convention in ancient Greek religion of addressing a priest, most notably the hierophant of the Eleusinian Mysteries, exclusively by his consecrated title, thereby effacing his personal identity in service of his divine role. From the Ancient Greek ἱερώνυμος (hierṓnumos), from ἱερός (hierós, "holy, sacred") and ὄνυμα (ónuma, a poetic form of ὄνομα, "name"). Unlike anonymity, a faceless absence, or titulature, a secular catalog of honors, hieronymy is a deliberate, sacred substitution: the mortal name submerged so the office may shine forth unsullied. It is the hierophant in the torch-lit Telesterion known only as "the Revealer," the carved title on a temple stele where a face should be, and the echo that answers solely to a sacred name—a ritual dissolution of the individual into the eternal role, a small, solemn victory of the timeless over the temporal.