epiphany

noun2

1. •
   An illuminating realization or discovery, often resulting in a personal feeling of elation, awe, or wonder.

   • It came to her in an epiphany what her life's work was to be.
2. •
   A manifestation or appearance of a divine or superhuman being.

   • The ithyphallic bird-man is the climactic, ecstatic, instantaneous male principle confronting the enormous, slow, bovine, and enduring principle of the eternal feminine in her epiphany as the bison. — 1981

noun5

1. •
   A manifestation of the divinity of Jesus Christ, especially to the Magi (Matthew 2:1–12), but also at his baptism and the Wedding at Cana.
2. •
   an experience of sudden and striking insight
3. •
   An annual Christian feast celebrating these events, usually on January 6, the twelfth day after Christmas.

   • On the Festival of the Epiphany, and on the six Sundays called after its name, we have distinct pictures held up to our view connected with the life of Jesus of Nazareth[…] — 1878
4. •
   The day of the celebration, January 6, or sometimes (in Western Christianity), the Sunday between January 2 and 8.
5. •
   The season or time of the Christian church year, either from the Epiphany feast day to Shrove Tuesday (the day before Ash Wednesday, the start of Lent), or from the Epiphany feast day to the feast of Candlemas (marking the presentation of Jesus Christ in the Temple in Jerusalem).