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numen::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | disembodied spirit, spirit |
| Derivation | numinous |
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Common terms referring to such magical energy include mana, numen, chi or kundalini.
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Towards the end of his life, he cautiously allowed cult to his numen.
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When used in this sense, numen is nearly synonymous with mana.
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Imperial responses to the first overtures of cult to the August numen were therefore extremely cautious.
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Cult to a living emperor's numen was quite another matter, and might be interpreted as no less than a statement of divine monarchy.
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Hendrik Wagenvoort thought that perhaps the names were addressed to the numen of the tree itself, trees being of feminine gender in Latin.
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The word numen is also used by sociologists to refer to the idea of magical power residing in an object, particularly when writing about ideas in the western tradition.
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Caesarius is somewhat unclear as to whether the devotees regarded the tree itself as divine or whether they thought its destruction would kill the numen housed within it.
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- A spirit believed to inhabit an object or preside over a place (especially in ancient Roman religion)
- Numen ("presence", plural numina) is a Latin term for the power of either a deity or a spirit that is present in places and objects, in the Roman religion. The many names for Italic gods may obscure this sense of a numinous presence in all the seemingly mundane actions of the natural world.
- Numen is an academic journal on the history of religions, published by Brill Publishers in Leiden, The Netherlands. ...
- A divinity, especially a local or presiding god
- A spiritual force or influence often identified with a natural object, phenomenon, or locality.^1
