In which I bring up Cardea, Goddess of Door Hinges

[swan_tower]

I'm in an SF Mind Meld today, this one on the advantages and disadvantages of different kinds of fantasy religions. (I have no idea why I'm at the top; maybe mine was the first response to come in. But gosh, does it make me feel conspicuous.)

Comments

[queenofthefae.livejournal.com]

haha nice!

[c0untmystars.livejournal.com]

I am now tempted to have my goddess character make a wise-ass remark about not having time to be bothered with door hinges...

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

As I understand it, the process by which that came about was that the Roman pantheon assimilated a whole bunch of threshold gods, and then somebody tried to rationalize them all by assigning them different parts of the threshold. (A similar happened with wheat: one deity for the seed, one for the seed when it's in the ground, one for the plant when it's just beginning to sprout . . . .)

But that doesn't make it any less eyebrow-raising. I mean, door hinges? Really?