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This is liminal…

iambarr — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 00:34:20 +0000

Becca clued me in to the existence of tent cities, something I had never really known existed. She told me that these tent cities are appearing in the west and mid-west because of the housing collapse. I immediately said “Holy shit that’s so sci-fi!” to which she responded, “that’s so great depression.” I’ll readily admit that my historical knowledge is sorely lacking in many ways. The truth is, I had never put much time into thinking about the great depression. It’s depressing.

So, I decided I’m going to do a little research on these liminal settlements. More later.

Hecate – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

iambarr — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 22:37:59 +0000

liminal

iambarr — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 21:24:57 +0000

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.
-from Wikipedia

Hecate as a guardian of thresholds. There are others. Must look them up.