Lore: Threshold Guardians

Threshold Guardians

Thresholds are

Between places of

Not coming or going.

Crossing Thresholds is

Sacred

For Transformation

Happens.

Not all at Thresholds

Can

Should

Will

Transform.

Some must

Stay

Untouched

Commonplace

Ordinary

But Heroes must

Cross

But Guardians must

Challenge.

Guardians have

Sacred duty

Ritual obligation

To keep in and to keep out.

Doors keep

Worlds apart

Before from after

In between secure

Doors have Gods

Janus of Two Heads guards the Out and the In

Cardea of the Door stands firm

Limentius of the Threshold stands firm

Portunus of the Portal holds the key

Each demands

A reason for opening

A reason for closing

An answer

Heroes must

Cross over

But how?

Forculus of the Passage

Guides through

The Threshold

Thresholds

Many Guard

Few enter

Fewer exit

Only One Transforms.

Works Used.

 Goodin, Melinda, “Archetypes in the Hero’s Journey,” Crossing the Threshold, March 2004, web, http://members.optusnet.com.au/~mgoodin68/archtype.htm.

Peterson, Deb, “The Archetypes of the Hero’s Journey,” About Education, 2014, web, http://adulted.about.com/od/howtos/a/archetypes.htm .

---, “Threshold Guardians,” Television Tropes and Idioms, web, http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ThresholdGuardians.

Vega, Debra, "Writers, Know Your Archetypes: The Threshold Guardian,” Moon in Gemini, web blog, 5 January 2014, http://debravega.wordpress.com/2014/01/05/writers-know-your-archetypes-the-threshold-guardian/.