Great Regulars: So-called primitive peoples, however,

often seem to have had a more sophisticated sense of deity, what Rudolf Otto in The Idea of the Holy called the numinous--a "non-rational, non-sensory experience or feeling whose primary and immediate object is outside the self."

Perhaps the best description of this is to be found, in of all places, Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows, in the chapter titled "The Piper at the Gates of Dawn," in which Rat and Mole, while searching for Otter's lost son, encounter the Great God Pan:

from Frank Wilson: When Falls the Coliseum: That's What He Said: The unfortunate persistence of "fear of the Lord"

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