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In Roman religion, Terminus was the god who protected boundary markers; his name was the Latin word for such a marker. Sacrifices were performed to sanctify each boundary stone, and landowners celebrated a festival called the "Terminalia" in Terminus' honor each year on February 23.
An Earth god or Earth goddess is a deification of the Earth associated with a figure with chthonic or terrestrial attributes. There are many different Earth goddesses and gods in many different cultures mythology. However, Earth is usually portrayed as a goddess. Earth goddesses are often associated with the chthonic deities of the underworld. [1]
A liminal deity is a god or goddess in mythology who presides over thresholds, gates, or doorways; "a crosser of boundaries". [1] These gods are believed to oversee a state of transition of some kind; such as, the old to the new, the unconscious to the conscious state, the familiar to the unknown. [2]
The rabbis viewed the heavens to be a solid object spread over the Earth, which was described with the biblical Hebrew word for the firmament, raki’a. Two images were used to describe it: either as a dome, or as a tent; the latter inspired from biblical references, though the latter is without an evident precedent. [38]
Two different models of the process of creation existed in ancient Israel. [15] In the "logos" (speech) model, God speaks and shapes unresisting dormant matter into effective existence and order (Psalm 33: "By the word of YHWH the heavens were made, and by the breath of his mouth all their hosts; he gathers up the waters like a mound, stores the Deep in vaults"); in the second, or "agon ...
As the god of boundaries, he is known by the epithet tularias as stated by a dedication of a statue to the god. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] His name is 10th on the list of 16 gods on the outer rim of the Piacenza Liver (a bronze model of a sheep ’s liver used as a reference or teaching tool for divination ). [ 2 ]
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Selvans is equated by some scholars to the Roman god Silvanus. [19] Selvans, like Culśanś is probably a god who protected boundaries, liminal spaces, gates and doorways. [19] [18] Another noteworthy aspect of these two Cortona figures, is the way their hands, and especially, their fingers are positioned.