The Crag

Mapbook page7 - detail showing the hill at the centre of the Koppie which forms the grove of cedars beneath which the Tribe live

Mapbook page15 - the Grove

The first diagram shows the Crag (which lies at the heart of the Grove) as it might appear to someone standing in the clearing below the Ancestor House.

This was my original conception derived from the second diagram. The scale should be perhaps a little larger... but not much. Note the contrast between the modest scale of the Koppie with the monumental excesses of Osrakum. It should also be noted that I decided to move the cistern from where it is shown on the diagrams. As for the circular structure on the diagram, that has written around its edge "area needed to accommodate Tribe as refugees", I'm afraid I can't now remember what that is about...

Steps cut into the rock rise up to the Ancestor House and then rise further to the summit. It is up here where the male dead must be carried for sky burial.