The common denominator is some kind of negative emotion, but the culture and time will determine which negative emotion is commonly provoked, whether it's disgust at bodily secretions, or
dread of deities, or repugnance at sexual perversions.
(Isaiah 6:1 - 3) Such a God was not lightly to be approached; an inviolability not to be profaned lay deep in Isaiah's thought
of the Eternal; but reverence had taken the place
of dread as the corollary
of holiness, majesty had displaced the former dangerousness
of the
deity, and the response demanded from man by the holiness
of the Most High had become thoroughly ethical.