analogies and associated feelings

The inherit other wordly nature of the numinous makes it hard grasp. That is part of  the fascination of it. No attempt to describe the numinous can really succeed so perhaphs analogy from another area that is not religions is neccessary. The analagoies between sublime and the numinous fit this. They are both ideas that "cannot be folded".  Some general ideas can be gathered from them but the exact definition isnt really possible.