Halls of Orithena

First Appearance and Context

The Halls of Orithena are recalled during the winding rite at Provener inside the Mynster, as avout trace elements of their liturgy to an ancient ceremony once held beneath the Halls’ dome. Within the Hylaean Way exhibits, a scale model of the Temple of Orithena stands in the Diorama Chamber, and a ceiling fresco shows the eruption of Ecba that destroyed the site.

Roles/Actions and Affiliations

Founded in very ancient times under Adrakhones—credited with turning Orithena into a temple devoted to exploration of the Hylaean Theoric World—the Halls drew visitors from afar. In a well‑remembered episode, Diax drove Enthusiasts out of the temple with a gardener’s rake; the maxim associated with his reforms is preserved as Diax's Rake. Accounts also recall that theors gathered here to sing the Hylaean Anathem, and that leadership passed from Adrakhones to Diax or one of his fids.

Relationships

• Part of the broader historical setting of Orithena, cited as a primordial center of learning.
• Its practices are remembered within the mathic world and echoed in rites observed at Provener inside the Mynster.

Descriptions/Characteristics

Descriptions emphasize marble columns rising from the black volcanic rock of Ecba to support a vast dome pierced by an oculus. An analemma was marked on the floor beneath so that, at midday, a shaft of sunlight from the oculus would pass across the leader’s station.

Current Status/Location

Long destroyed in antiquity; known through tradition and exhibits rather than by living institutions. The site’s memory persists in liturgy and in curated displays along the Hylaean Way.