There's a map of a larger area in the article "Introduction to the Surface World" in Wyrms Footprints. The map is very simple, but it shows Altinae as a large trapezoid north of Genertela with a land connection around Kahar's Sea to an Eastern Continent, and in a mirroring way it shows southern Pamaltela as a large trapezoid with a land connection around the Worms and Jorkar's Seas to a Western Continent. I agree that the outer world becomes mythological, though, so that you don't have to take the map too literally.
I also agree that mythological perspective should apply to the position and appearance of the sun. I like the ideas in this thread about that. In my Glorantha, as you walk into the Kingdom of Ignorance the sun gradually weakens and morphs into the Black Sun. It looks the same to everyone present. There's an eclipse every day at noon, and the trolls who are awake then will sing the Hymn For Heaven On Earth.
On the other hand, what I've read about how the stars look at different times and places has been based on a more strictly physical idea of a tilting dome.
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