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the tingle when a place or thing feels like a god is renting the room.
means a divine or spiritual power inhabiting an object, place, or person, distinct from a personified deity.
from latin for a nod of the head, specifically a god's nod of assent, so it came to mean the will or presence of divinity acting in the world, felt more than described.
not personifiedromans felt it in trees before naming any god
rudolf otto1917 book the idea of the holy revived the term
root wordgives us numinous and, oddly, numismatics is unrelated
plural usenumina could inhabit rivers, doorways, even storerooms
for instance
vesta hearth — roman households kept her numen burning daily, no statue required
genius loci — the numen of a specific place, still invoked in landscape architecture
delphi oracle — greeks sensed numen rising from the chasm itself, not just apollo