[Glorantha] Re: Aeolian Church architecture?

CJ:

> Aeolian Church architecture? Anyone know what it looks like??? I'm very
> curious about this. I note the use of stones, which I imagine as carved
> menhirs, perhaps standing on spiral mounds of earth, like wayside shrines.
> However the large Churches of Esvular - I did wonder if they might be open
> to the sky, a bit like The Globe theatre of Shakespeare's time? Or do they
> have round towers like Saxon churches?

  Well, Orlanth Thunderous temples are open to the air, so perhaps the Aeolian Churches are similar. Combinations of spirals and triangles would make sense.   

> Interesting: A plinth is the base of a colum or somesuch, the podium on
> which it stands. So either the plinth is a base for a ssacred banner of
> some such placed there in the right seasons and holy days - I rather like
> the banner concept, and the idea of a fertility pole, or similar, and the
> plinth being decked with crops. I see this as a predominantly rural form of
> the Church. I found the Aeolian Churchjh keyword on Isaaries.com earlier so
> I am off to read up on it in the hope of finding answerrs to myu questions.

  > Maybe the thing on the plinth is a spiritual thing? What was teh thing that
> surmounted the Ivory Plinth, presumably lost centuries ago? I'm not asking a
> tusk roder to find out! Maybe Esvulari plinths once had stautes of the
> Heortling deities, toppled when the Invisible God tood precedence, and that
> si why the plinths are still shrines?

  Since the Aeolian Church is a form of Malkionism that incorporates the converted Storm Deities, it might have a rural form that puts a higher emphasis on the storm deities or local deities, so you might get idols being honoured alongside the Aeolian Saints. Perhaps something similar to Voodo, with African deities being honoured alongside Catholic Saints.   

  The Ivory Plinth had the Tusks of the Demigod Pig Gouger and, as far as I know, still does, probably. Think crossed tusks forming an archway or gateway on a plinth.       

> I'm speculating wildly, i really have no idea. Anyone?

Not really ....        

  See Ya   

Simon     Received on Wed 09 Aug 2006 - 11:11:35 EEST