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![https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liminality (in Places)
In mythology and religion or esoteric lore liminality can include such realms as Purgatory or Da'at, which, as well as signifying liminality, some theologians deny actually existing, making them, in some cases, doubly liminal. "Between-ness" defines these spaces. For a hotel worker (an insider) or a person passing by with disinterest (a total outsider), the hotel would have a very different connotation. To a traveller staying there, the hotel would function as a liminal zone, just as "doors and windows and hallways and gates frame...the definitively liminal condition".[73]
More conventionally, springs, caves, shores, rivers, volcanic calderas—"a huge crater of an extinct volcano...[as] another symbol of transcendence"[74]—fords, passes, crossroads, bridges, and marshes are all liminal: "'edges', borders or faultlines between the legitimate and the illegitimate".[75] Oedipus met his father at the crossroads and killed him; the bluesman Robert Johnson met the devil at the crossroads, where he is said to have sold his soul.[76]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:scmcyemdposb4vuidhztn2ui/bafkreid5lfwvevjx54fldnkalxvrhkipsig6hjdix65h4tobujw2ytb654)
![In folklore
depiction of Harihara
Harihara—the fused representation of Vishnu (Hari) and Shiva (Hara) from the Hindu tradition, existing in a liminal state of being
There are a number of stories in folklore of those who could only be killed in a liminal space: In Welsh mythology, Lleu could not be killed during the day or night, nor indoors or outdoors, nor riding or walking, nor clothed or naked (and is attacked at dusk, while wrapped in a net with one foot on a cauldron and one on a goat). Likewise, in Hindu text Bhagavata Purana, Vishnu appears in a half-man half-lion form named Narasimha to destroy the demon Hiranyakashipu who has obtained the power never to be killed in day nor night, in the ground nor in the air, with weapon nor by bare hands, in a building nor outside it, by man nor beast. Narasimha kills Hiranyakashipu at dusk, across his lap, with his sharp claws, on the threshold of the palace, and as Narasimha is a god himself, the demon is killed by neither man nor beast. In the Mahabharata, Indra promises not to slay Namuci and Vritra with anything wet or dry, nor in the day or in the night, but instead kills them at dusk with foam.[81]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:scmcyemdposb4vuidhztn2ui/bafkreie5vxnwb3irj5p2j65j62t6htg2njpptwjr2hdbnbrkgjc6gnkx5u)
