Nathan Bloom: December 7 2009
As we discussed in class Liminoid is derived from the Latin word limen; meaning threshold. This is very applicable to Pilgrimages because during a Pilgrimage you are seeking answers and looking for or traveling to a sacred place. This fact makes you limenal: or on a threshold. You have left your world behind but are not yet in the world in which you have set out to find. To emphasize you are neither here nor there, simply caught in between. Turner and Turner discuss that liminality "is not only a transition but also potentiality." (page 3) It not what you have left but what you are entering into.
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