scintillescent

It derives in part from the city's mercurial and intangible spirituality, rich in symbols, occult meanings, numerology, syncretism between Catholicism and magic, between scintillescent sunlight and deep shadow – and the cult of death.

The moon, Bright, breathless, and buoyant, and brimful of June, Floated up from the hillside, sloped over the vale, And poised herself loose in mid-heaven, with one pale, Minute, scintillescent, and tremulous star Swinging under her globe like a wizard-lit car, Thus to each of those women revealing the face Of the other.