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Numen

noun

(pl. numina)

A spirit believed to inhabit an object or preside over a place (especially in ancient Roman religion).

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... former and guaranteed the latter. But what was sought above all, was to enter into an inner union with the Deity, to be saved by him and become a partaker in the possession and enjoyment of his life. The worshipper consequently longed to find a "praesens numen" and the revelation of him in the cultus, and hoped to put himself in possession of the Deity by asceticism and mysterious rites. This new piety longed for health and purity of soul, and elevation above ...

— History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7) • Adolph Harnack

... aventurar la opinion de que era la Deidad popular y acatada por las masas peruanas; mientras que la religion del Sol era la de la corte, culto que, por mas adoptado que fuese entre los Indios, nunca llego a desarraigar la fe y la devocion al Numen primitivo. En effecto, en todas las relaciones de la vida de los Indios, resalta la profunda veneracion que tributavan a Pachacamac." Antiguedades Peruanas, p. 149. Inasmuch as elsewhere this author takes pains to ...

— American Hero-Myths - A Study in the Native Religions of the Western Continent • Daniel G. Brinton

Words linked to "Numen" : religious belief, spirit, faith, numinous, religion, disembodied spirit