Epiphany!

Adoration of the Magi

Gentile Da Fabiano (1423)

Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy

American Heritage Dictionary
e·piph·a·ny (ĭ-pĭf'ə-nē) Pronunciation Key n. pl. e·piph·a·nies

Epiphany

1. A Christian feast celebrating the manifestation of the divine nature of Jesus to the Gentiles as represented by the Magi.

2. January 6, on which this feast is traditionally observed.

3. A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.

4. A comprehension or perception of reality by means of a sudden intuitive realization: "I experienced an epiphany, a spiritual flash that would change the way I viewed myself" (Frank Maier).

5. A revelatory manifestation of a divine being.

[Middle English epiphanie, from Old French, from Late Latin epiphania, from Greek epiphaneia, manifestation, from epiphainesthai, to appear : epi-, forth; see epi- + phainein, phan-, to show; see bhā-1 in Indo-European roots.]