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The shiver that says something holy just walked into the room uninvited.
means Describing a powerful sense of the divine, holy, or supernatural — the awe-tinged feeling that something sacred is present.
from From Latin numen, 'a divine will' or 'nod of a god' — literally a nod of the head, since gods were imagined to express their power with a gesture. The English word was coined in the early 20th century by German theologian Rudolf Otto, who needed a term for the raw experience of the sacred before any doctrine dressed it up.
- coined
- German theologian Rudolf Otto, 1917
- latin root
- numen, the nod of a god's head
- defined feeling
- awe and dread tangled together
- not religion
- the experience beneath all religions
- untranslatable kin
- the sublime, but with a pulse
the golden ratio — mathematical proportion (1.618...) appearing in the parthenon, nautilus shells, and galaxy spirals
the aurora borealis — northern lights visible from alaska, norway, and iceland caused by solar wind colliding with magnetosphere