Altaluna is the region of philosophy and religion, located on the central plateau of Solaria. It is the territory where all the island’s meridians meet.
The name derives from the yearning to reach the light: if the whole island takes its name from the sun, Altaluna is the place that receives its rays and returns them as reflected light, moonlight, rising as a symbol of thought seeking truth.
In the system of symbolic geography, Altaluna answers man’s why.
Altaluna on the map of Solaria: the central plateau, wedged between the four continental regions.
Domains
To Altaluna belong ethics, metaphysics, theology, spirituality, mysticism, and reflection on the meaning of existence.
Capitals
The two capitals of Altaluna are Nuru (D) and Qamar (A♭). Unlike the other nations, the interval separating them is not a perfect fifth but a tritone.
Nuru is the divine made visible as a creative force in reality; Qamar is reflection, contemplation, matter becoming a mirror of the spirit. Altaluna is thus in tension between action and contemplation, between inner recollection and the irruption of the sacred into the world: two forms taken by the same mystical experience, which the tritone unites and renders reversible.
The two capitals: Qamar to the north-west and Nuru to the south-east.
The refraction
In Altaluna lie the seeds of an original, whole light, not yet separated into its opposites: nature and technique, science, spirit and communication coexist there before being distinguished.
The plateau functions like a prism: the light of Solaria, passing through it, no longer proceeds in a straight line, but bends and differentiates. It does not break, it translates itself, and it is in this deviation that human experience as such is born. From the refraction derive the two meridians that describe human experience in itself, that of consciousness and that of information, which run through Alma and Eos.
The division
The war has split Altaluna: Nuru belongs to the Southern League, Qamar to the Northern Alliance. It is the only nation whose capitals lie on opposite fronts.
Related entries
The Seven Nations
Nuru
Qamar
Light
Symbolic Meridians
The War