 More specifically, the linh power of an entity resides in mediation between the two levels of order and disorder which govern social transformation.The mediating entity itself shifts of status and function between one level and another, and makes meaning in different contexts.This attribute is often associated with goddesses, animal motifs such as the snake—an amphibian animal—, the owl which takes night for day, the bat being half bird and half mammal, the rooster who crows at the crack between night and morning, but also rivers dividing landmasses, and other "liminal" entities.