As the guide towards knowledge, insight, and wisdom, in a tarot reading it might, for example, represent a priest, scholar, therapist, or teacher although these individuals are more definitively represented by the Hermit, or suggested by the traits attributed to the King of Cups.
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In the Rider Waite Tarot deck and similar decks, "The Hierophant" (sometimes called "The Pope") is one of the twenty-two trump cards comprising the "Major Arcana", and represents conformity to social standards, or a deference to the established social moral order.
The High Priest Not to Be Described (Elder Hierophant, Tcho-Tcho Lama of Leng) is a fictional character in H. P. Lovecraft's Dream Cycle.
Synn is opposed by the Hierophants, rebels made up of native Thanagarians as well as races that Thanagar had conquered over time.
In the Mythic Tarot deck, the Hierophant is depicted as Chiron, the learned centaur.