Epiphany (holiday) part of this period as the Epiphany season, comprising the Sundays of Epiphany and ending "only with the Feast of the Presentation (Candlemas)". Another interpretation of "Epiphany season" applies the term to the period from Epiphany to the day before Ash Wednesday. Some Methodists in the United States and Singapore follow these liturgics. Lutherans celebrate the last Sunday before Ash Wednesday as the Transfiguration of our Lord, and it has been said that they call the whole period from Epiphany to then as Epiphany season. The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America used the terms "Time after Epiphany" to refer to
Epiphany (literature) the Greek word 'epiphany' that means the manifestation of a deity or a sudden realisation. The term epiphany as a literary device has become popular among English speakers. Epiphany as a word is derived from the ancient Greek word "epiphaneia" "manifestation, striking appearance, festival held in commemoration of the appearance of a god at some particular place." It also has religious connotations in the early fourteenth century meaning "festival of the manifestation of Christ to the gentiles" and in the New Testament meaning an "advent manifestation of Christ." Christians denoted from epiphany the meaning of a "visible manifestation of a