In a church that has seven sides, each of them significant, which God has to host the door to get in?

nobodysuspectsthebutterfly:

racefortheironthrone:

Good question!

My guess is that you probably have the three male gods on one side and the three female gods on the other, and the entryway is the Stranger (symbolizing the whole death and rebirth thing). 

In terms of ordering, I would guess that if the bottom side is the door/Stranger, and then going around the room on the right hand side, it probably goes Smith, Warrior, Father, Mother, Maiden, Crone. 

Thus, symbolically, the Smith and the Crone are in the back (because who cares about peasants and old women), the Warrior faces the Maiden he’s supposed to protect, and the Father and Mother are side-by-side.

That makes complete sense. And for the record, in The Mystery Knight, Dunk crosses Whitewalls’s sept to find Egg by the Father’s altar. And then in his fight with Black Tom Heddle, they battle until Dunk’s backed into the Father’s altar, then he forces Tom backwards all the way across the sept and cuts his arm off by the Stranger’s altar.

Though also for the record, in the graphic novel adaptation of TMK, the artist draws the sept like this:

with the doorway in one of the pointy ends, trimmed off.

Huh. Interesting. Miller’s design is a bit weird, imo, because whichever of the seven is on the wall across from the door would seem to have way more visual prominence than the others, which cuts against the whole Seven Who Are One thing. 

It also bugs me a bit that the doorway technically makes it eight-sided.