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numina
[ noo-muh-nuh, nyoo- ]
numina
/ ˈnjuːmɪnə /
noun
- the plural of numen
Example Sentences
Standing at the summit was a mountain god—one of the numina montanum, Jason had called them.
The deities are already clear-cut, individual personalities of distinct ethos, plastically shaped figures such as the later sculpture and painting could work upon, not vaguely conceived numina like the forms of the old Roman religion.
When such powers or numina were conceived as personalities with definite names they became ‘gods,’ dei.
Accordingly, the baals are not to be regarded necessarily as local variations of one and the same god, like the many Virgins or Madonnas of Catholic lands, but as distinct numina.
The first, whose principal though not sole champion is Max Müller, holds that myths are the result of a disease of language—words become things, "nomina numina."
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