Yoharid Pagoda
Purpose / Function
This pagoda is a shrine to the Primordial Sheep. Here people arrive, usually in small groups, to venerate the powers of Creation through Growing, the order of nature, and un-devised processes. Things that just happen without explanation, transitions and inevitable happenings as time moves. Parents bring their infants here to wish that they are free of deformities as they mature, and adolescents come here so that their passage into adulthood will hold little in the way of them.
Architecture
The walls are whitewashed and slant gently towards the middle, and the roofs slant up at the corners. They are made of many overlapping corrugated enamel plates which are azure, and smelted in a way which produces patterns on them that look like the bottom of a swimming pool on a very sunny day. These tiles are made from enamel that is extracted from the cloud-wool after much tedious smelting. Statues of sheep's heads have been wrought from an indigo metal speckled with motes of silver and placed at the edges of the roofs, and their eyes have been set with multifaceted gemstones of glittering polychromate tourmaline, and their horns are represented with onyx that resembles ivory.
And the walls are based around a complex, compact bamboo scaffolding grown on a distant cloud, and much woven cloud-wool has been stretched in-between the scaffolding frames and fastened on it. Then they were treated with an acidic compound which congealed them together and made them solid, such was done to the entire exteriors, but the same could not be said for the interior corridors. So are the floors, which are carpeted with many woven mats made from crudely spun cloud-wool.
The upper storeys of the pagoda are exposed to the open air, with only pillars holding up the ceiling. Those pillars are made from the same bamboo which frames the building.
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