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What is the word for the effect seen when rays of sunlight break through the clouds, giving a heavenly feeling to objects below?
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in the bridges of madison county, (what an awful place to site!-- but i do read trashy novels every once in a while!)
the photographer talks about such light as "god light" and his boss loves its.. it sells calendars!
but god light works.. it make you feel like gods love is shining right down on you. -- and it was used by artist to the same effect, in oil paintings.. with the same type of sunlight shining down on the saint, or virgin or baby jesus.
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Once more tsuwm's poetic essence breaks forth 
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These are all good suggestions, but I'm looking for something a bit less obvious. I believe it was actually one of the AWAD words at some point last year - perhaps the weekly theme was "little-known words for everyday things" or something similar.
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In one of the lecture auditoriums of my college the lighting is terribly uneven. Some students call the seats with direct light "Jesus seats." 
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I dunno what you call the sunlight when it breaks through a hole in the clouds, but in architecture such a hole in the ceiling is sometimes placed and that hole is called an oculus.
Sunburst regards,
DubDub
Edit:0 Just because it's interesting from AHD:
vNOUN: Inflected forms: pl. oc·u·li (-l)
Architecture An eyelike opening or ornament, especially: a. A round window. b. A circular opening at the apex of a dome.
ETYMOLOGY: Medieval Latin, from Latin, eye. See okw- in Appendix I.
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You put your finger right on it, Bill. The effect of the sun streaming through a hole in the clouds is called a glory. It's most effective when the sun is at least halfway up or down from the horizon, not directly or nearly overhead.
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