> Philippe Sigaud wrote:
> > As far as I know, Heortling villages aren't spiral shaped,
Ian replied:
>
> When I drew my map of Clearwine (on the Glorantha website I reasoned
> that 'planners' would mirror the plans for a stead/village that they
> knew - Storm Village - and so there is a spiral shape to the
> settlement, just like Aedin's Wall has.
Just to add to Ian, I'm currently finishing up a longish series of articles on Lagerwater stead in the Far Place: the conceptual map I'm using for stead layout is also a storm spiral, overlaid with the deities and powers of the four directions (see 'Sacred order of Space', TR 118). This is obviously an archetypal ideal - practical considerations will always come first, when planting buildings, but it is stead plan that *every* adult male Heortling knows. As above, so below.
John
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