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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]
A liminal deity is a god or goddess in mythology who presides over thresholds, gates, or doorways; "a crosser of boundaries". See also Psychopomp , Household deity , and Tutelary deity . Subcategories
Janus was also involved in spatial transitions, presiding over home doors, city gates and boundaries. Numerous toponyms of places located at the boundary between the territory of two communities, especially Etrurians and Latins or Umbrians, are named after the god. [156]
Set was identified by the Egyptians with the Hittite deity Teshub, who, like Set, was a storm god, and the Canaanite deity Baal, being worshipped together as "Seth-Baal". [ 42 ] Additionally, Set is depicted in part of the Greek Magical Papyri , a body of texts forming a grimoire used in Greco-Roman magic during the fourth century CE.
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.
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 ]
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 ...
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.