Numen (disambiguation)

Numen, plur. numina, is a Latin word typically borrowed by modern languages without alteration. It may mean:

Divinity

Numen, a divine spirit in ancient Roman religion
- Numen, a divine spirit investing the parents at the festival of Parentalia
- Numen of Africa, a supernatural being seen by Curtius Rufus
- Numen, name applied to Robigalia, personification of agricultural disease
- Numen praesens, the divine spirit of the emperor in the Roman imperial cult
- Numen, a divine aspect of Jupiter Tonans
- Numen, the deity Aius Locutius, harbinger of a Gallic attack on Rome
- Numina, creators of the 27 shrines of the Argei
Numen, a divine spirit in other religions
- Numen, a classification of Borr in Norse mythology by Finnur Magnusson
- Numen, translation of the Chinese concept ling
- Nine Numina, a group to which the Queen Mother of the West belonged
- Numina, applies to the strungma who offer chinlabs, a type of adhiṣṭhāna in Tibetan and Shingon Buddhism

Numen, a nation elevated to a divine spirit in the philosophy of national mysticism
Numenism, another name for animism
Numina, rejected as impure spirits by St. Augustine in debates with Cornelius Labeo

Numen: Contest of Heroes, a 2010 video game
Numen, an imaginary power of a sin-eater in the desktop role-playing game Geist: The Sin-Eaters

Numen (journal), a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal covering the history of religions
Numen, Old Men, a 2009 book by Joseph Gelfer
Numina, a class of character in the fictional civilisation The Culture

Numen Kingdom, a fictional kingdom in the children's animated television series Century Sonny
Numen International, television production company of Clarissa Burt