Jane asked why for is sacred to the earth cults. Other than it being the number of sides on a square I think the answer has somthing to do with the divide between old and new gods. Asrelia/Ty Kora Tek and Ernald/ Maran Gor are the original four sides before the events of the Darkness. Voria/Barbeestor Gor come later in the order of things. Perhaps the Old Earth alliance of Esrolia do not recognise the younger goddesses. Sometimes however with the number of Household deities that are supposed to be daughters to the goddesses I wionder why the dodecahedron is not sacred to them (ha ha).
Another publisehd earth temple is Dan Barker's depiction of a sacred cube of fields around some standing stones in Rough Guide to Bold Home. There is also Dorasta's Cleft in Dorastor. There is also Biturian Varoshi's account of descent into the Paps, which is a huge Earth temple complex and isn't the Pairing Stone sacred to Earth Cultists. I also envision massive underground caverns that never see the light of day, possibly temples to Ty Kora Tek or Asrelia - you know somthing like the cavern temple in Ursula le Guin's Earthsea books.
Cheers Simon.
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