Talk:Liminal being

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I propose changing the description of Green Men from "both human and vegetable" to "both human and plant" because vegetable sounds silly in this context. -- thesoffish, Tuesday Sept. 16 2008 23:28 PST. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.109.9.103 (talk) 06:28, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

On Valentine Michael Smith

AFAIR the story, V.A. Smith is no liminal being - he is the offspring of two human astronauts and born on Mars. His "otherwordly" behavior and abilities stem from being risen by Martians. More Info is found at Stranger in a Strange Land. 85.182.12.89 (talk) 10:05, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

This article...

Is incredibly difficult to understand; uses redundant, high level language; and does not actually tell the reader what the subject IS! Even having read the article, then re-read the intro, it still makes little to no sense. It should say something like, "A liminal being is one that cannot be easily placed into a single category of existence" or something easier to understand. It's not clear at the moment, until you get to the list of examples. Please could somebody with the actual know-how do something about it! Cheers! 137.205.139.73 (talk) 22:12, 13 January 2012 (UTC)

Just came here to say that. What did I just read? Evidently the definition is anything that is two things? Whether the things in question are different species or different categories of reality? How is there one term that means all that? It sounds like it's saying some of them are metaphors for others too, I'm so lost. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:448:C300:6E10:0:0:0:96BD (talk) 05:37, 25 March 2021 (UTC)

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some additions to the hybrid section

I plan on making these additions to the Hybrid section:

Tritons from classical mythology, half-human sea beasts

Satyrs and their elder counterparts the Silenoi from classical mythology, half-man half-goat (similar to the Roman Faun)

Harpies from classical mythology, half-woman half-bird (see also: Furies)

[Gilmore, David D. (2012) Monsters: Evil Beings, Mythical Beasts, and All Manner of Imaginary Terrors. University of Pennsylvania Press. p. 38-45]

--Druzydragon (talk) 02:10, 4 December 2018 (UTC)

Use citations.

This is a very cool article topic that succumbed to a very lame tendency to become a list of trivia and Pokemon-like mythologies. I deleted a lot. If anyone would like to expand this article, I recommend working from the existing citations, since it refers to a rather constrained field of anthropology explicitly working with transcendental archetypes. Any mythology trivia that did not discuss liminality by name should be scrutinized for relevance, lest the article occupy a liminal state itself. Jellocube27 (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 07:04, 28 July 2023 (UTC)

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