Gustav Meyrink’in Kardinal Napellus Öyküsünde Hiyerofani ve Erginlenme

The Vienna-born writer, Gustav Meyrink, has produced many works on fantastic topics. His novels such as Der Golem and Der Engel vom westlichen Fenster have been translated into Turkish. The name of the work we dealt with in this study is the story called Der Kardinal Napellus. This story tells us about the religious change that a monk named Radspieller experienced. In this study, the story of extraordinary events and religious issues are handled in the context of the works of Mircea Eliade. In the first part of the study, concepts such as hierophany and sacred and profane are tried to be explained. In the section in which the work is analysed, it is concluded that aconitum napellus plant, which is effective in the transition of Radspieller from a sacred life to a profane life, can be defined as a hierophany, and plays an important role for the initiation.