numina

[noo-muh-nuh, nyoo-]

noun

1. the plural of numen.

numina

/ ˈnjuːmɪnə /

noun

1. the plural of numen

Example Sentences

The numina montanum were sons of Gaea, Hazel’s least favorite goddess.

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The deities are already clear-cut, individual personalities of distinct ethos, plastically shaped figures such as the later sculpture and painting could work upon, not vaguely conceived numina like the forms of the old Roman religion.

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When such powers or numina were conceived as personalities with definite names they became ‘gods,’ dei.

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Accordingly, the baals are not to be regarded necessarily as local variations of one and the same god, like the many Virgins or Madonnas of Catholic lands, but as distinct numina.

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The first, whose principal though not sole champion is Max Müller, holds that myths are the result of a disease of language—words become things, "nomina numina."

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