self » deities http://www.eschatos.net habitual construction of imagination Wed, 14 Jul 2010 19:49:43 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 liminal http://www.eschatos.net/2009/03/05/liminal/ http://www.eschatos.net/2009/03/05/liminal/#comments Thu, 05 Mar 2009 21:24:57 +0000 iambarr http://iambarr.wordpress.com/2009/03/05/liminal/ Liminality (from the Latin word līmen, meaning “a threshold”) is a psychological, neurological, or metaphysical subjective, conscious state of being on the “threshold” of or between two different existential planes, as defined in neurological psychology (a “liminal state”) and in the anthropological theories of ritual by such writers as Arnold van Gennep, Victor Turner, and others.[citations needed] In the anthropological theories, a ritual, especially a rite of passage, involves some change to the participants, especially their social status.
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Hecate as a guardian of thresholds. There are others. Must look them up.

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