I just thought of a question, basic enough that it's probably been answered somewhere in the forum, but also basic enough that I couldn't come up with a search specific enough to find it.
Erebus is an infinite plane, so presumably the mechanic by which we are accustomed to day and night, namely the rotation of the Earth (or orbit of the sun around Earth, depending on how you're thinking about it) wouldn't be able to apply. I'm trying to remember how societies which didn't hold to a spherical Earth explained it... but I feel like those mostly still involved a sun-object moving through the celestial orb above the Earth, and that still doesn't really work if you're dealing with an infinite plane. So how does it work in Erebus?
My first dark-fantasy instinct is that day and night are the incarnation of the eternal struggle between Lugus and Esus, but that's ridiculous because, aside from that probably being direct enough that it would violate the compact, I'm sure even Lugus would agree creation isn't much good without night every so often, and in any case that would suggest neither existed before the fall, and I feel like that's not the case.
While we're on astronomically explained phenomena:
I imagine explanation for the stars moving is similar to whatever explanation exists for the sun?
And how about the seasons? I don't think I even ever learned how the societies which didn't hold to a tilted spherical Earth explain that...
Erebus is an infinite plane, so presumably the mechanic by which we are accustomed to day and night, namely the rotation of the Earth (or orbit of the sun around Earth, depending on how you're thinking about it) wouldn't be able to apply. I'm trying to remember how societies which didn't hold to a spherical Earth explained it... but I feel like those mostly still involved a sun-object moving through the celestial orb above the Earth, and that still doesn't really work if you're dealing with an infinite plane. So how does it work in Erebus?
My first dark-fantasy instinct is that day and night are the incarnation of the eternal struggle between Lugus and Esus, but that's ridiculous because, aside from that probably being direct enough that it would violate the compact, I'm sure even Lugus would agree creation isn't much good without night every so often, and in any case that would suggest neither existed before the fall, and I feel like that's not the case.
While we're on astronomically explained phenomena:
I imagine explanation for the stars moving is similar to whatever explanation exists for the sun?
And how about the seasons? I don't think I even ever learned how the societies which didn't hold to a tilted spherical Earth explain that...