| Unlike in Greek mythology, the gods were not personified, but were vaguely defined sacred spirits called numina. |
| This theory is not a form of the philological doctrine, nomina numina. |
| The ideas are simpler, the numina seem less cold and more protective, the worshippers more sensible of divine aid. |
| Clearly, in the African experience, worship in these places was not of the numina, but was a worship of the God who revealed himself at and through these places. |
| The gods are nomina and not numina, names without being and not beings without name. |
| I feel as if one massive exercise of reason burnt me out, and now I'm moving in a world of numina, moved not by will but by the application of force. |
