How to Semiotically Sex Up Your Campaign Setting With Celestial Symbolism (opens in new tab)

It's funny how you go down rabbit holes. Last week I happened to be in Lund, in southern Sweden, where there is a very grand and beautiful cathedral which is rightly famous. It contains a famous astronomical clock, first constructed some time around 1425, and which calls to mind CS Lewis's observation that the defining characteristic of the medieval mind was 'intricacy':This is the clock's 'perpetual calendar'. Some more detail:What you will notice about the calendar is that it is divided int...