“What, then, is this devata, the Brahman? It is an a-caryam, i.e. ‘that in whose presence we must exclaim ‘aaah!’ And one cannot ‘illustrate’ the numinous character of this ‘aaah!’ by any better analogy than that of the lightning here given. The unexpectedness and suddenness of the lightning-flash, its dreadful weirdness, its overpoweringness and dazzling splendour, the fright and the delight of it, give it an almost numinous impressiveness, and indeed often do produce an actual impression on the mind” – Rudolf Otto