The Threshold

A doorway is a change of law.

This name counts verified appearances. It does not grade the idea. Corpus size and editorial depth are different.

Two vertical forms with night sea between them. — Generated interpretation·

Inanna’s gates strip. Polyphemus’s cave-mouth closes. Orpheus’s look happens at the lip of air. Van Gennep later named a phase limen. The stories are older than the name.

Thresholds can be architectural (gate, bedchamber door), legal (exile’s frontier), or sonic (the Sirens’ range). What they share is consequence: crossing is not a mood.

Seven gates, seven removals.
Inanna’s Descent
Cave door; later, the door of the hall.
The Odyssey
The last steps of air.
Orpheus
Kadesh: the threshold of the land they would not cross.
The Wilderness
The palace gate: home to homelessness.
The Going Forth