Otherworld Entrances and Liminal Borderlands

“Intrinsic to all Otherworld entrances is the idea of the borderlands, the edges where two ways of being interpenetrate each other to form liminal space. Such borderland places where water touches the land, times of dawn and twilight, dense primeval forests, sacred mounds, caves, and deep waters, all belong to the gods.”

Source: How Disinfolklorists create borders inside our Inner Minds

Scholarly quotation (from Perera) placing the Inner/Outer Realm concept in the deep folklore tradition of Otherworld entrances. The border between Inner and Outer Realm is the same liminal space that Indo-European cultures have marked as sacred and dangerous for millennia.

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