Godfinger

For a few breathtaking moments, a shaft of sunlight streamed from behind the hill. The light lit up the trees, turning the heifer pasture into a shimmer of gold and casting stark shadows. The remainder of the hillside stayed lit by the soft twilight of the late October  afternoon.

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Godfinger is the name Richard Power's character Mimi, in his Pulitzer Prize winning book, The Overstory,  called this light: 

"They hike through dense spruce...Trunks slice the sunlight into shards. Godfingers, she and her sisters used to call those slanted beams."