Experience: Awe

The feeling admiration or astonishment (wonder) mixed with fear or respect, often inspired by something that seems powerful

Primary term: Wonder

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The Cask of Amontillado
Experience: Awe
Narrative Technology: Irony
Montresor recounts the entire event with cold detachment, ending with: “In pace requiescat!” (May he rest in peace) revealing he was never caught.
Contributed by: Alondra Nieves-Orama
June 4, 2025
Genesis
Experience: Awe
Narrative Technology: God Voice
"In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth/ And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the/face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters."
Contributed by: angusif
November 15, 2024
Book of the Dead
Experience: Awe
Narrative Technology: God Voice
"The heaven-house of Osiris is guarded by a mouth of flame, and a spirit of knives, and a destroyer of hearts, and an eater of blood."
Contributed by: angusif
November 15, 2024
Gilgamesh
Experience: Awe
Narrative Technology: God Voice
"His brow of darkness, his hands of a lion, his claws of an eagle, he walks the path to the Temple of Dust"
Contributed by: angusif
September 20, 2024