God Of Door Hinges

Here those for the doors both of the oracle and of the outer temple are said to have been of gold 1 kings 7 50.

God of door hinges. She is one strange nymph spirit see nymphs who submitted to sexual advance by janus in return for power over door hinges. Goddess of the hinge wrote the roman writer ovid praising the great deity cardea. 18 pack of door hinges flat black 3 x 3 inch interior hinges for doors flat black with 5 8 radius corners 4 7 out of 5 stars 1 053 22 99 106 00. She wasn t just a minor deity or luck charm.

Cardea or carda was the goddess of the hinge she is associated with two other deities who preside over doorways. She protects the family and children of the house and keeps evil spirits from crossing the threshold. Proof once more that the romans had a deity for everything. She was part of the roman pantheon of gods complete with her own mythological backstory.

She opens the closed by her power closes the open the goddess cardea ruler over all things hinged and upon doors isn t particularly popular today but she was a big part of the roman religion. Forculus door and limentinus threshold and this trinity of divinities belongs to rituals of marking out sacred space and fixing boundaries. By this is probably to be understood that the pivots upon which the doors swung and which turned in the sockets of the threshold and the lintel were cased in gold. The augustan poet ovid conflates her with another archaic goddess named carna whose festival was celebrated on the kalends of june and for whom he gives the alternative name cranê or cranea a nymph.

Ovid s conflation of the goddesses is likely to have been his poetic invention but it has also been conjectured that carna was a contracted form of cardina and at minimum ovid was observing.