16 spokes, 16 gaps... Hmmm. Spokes don't run the entire diameter of a circle, only the radius. This technically has 16 spokes.
Ha 
Ok Al, let's call it instead a hurling disc with sticks in, vomiting its way through the void 
I feel I should explain myself further. In fig 1 below we'll add the first spoke to the wheel stick to the disc. We'll call it Akatosh, or Time. Now time and space are linked, just like in rl physics. When time forms, so does space. When we look at it like that, Tom's Lorkhan cunundrum resolves itself. Consider these words from Eight Aedra:
is it any wonder that the Time God would hate the same-twin on the other end of the aurbrilical cord, the Space God? That any Creation would become so utterly dangerous because of that singular fear of a singular word's addition: "I AM NOT"?
Fig 1
Next we'll add another stick to the disc, this one we'll call Kynareth. In fig 2 below we can see that the "hub", Mundus, isn't yet formed.
Fig 2
In my final diagram below, we are adding another stick. This one we'll call Mara. With the third god added, Mundus is really starting to form. When all eight sticks are added, we get the image I posted earlier which appears to be 16 lines. When we understand that the formation of the hub relies upon the interaction of all eight sticks, we realise that centre isn't an addition, rather it is the result the lines intersecting one another.
Now, with each stick added, a gap between them is also added - a realm of Oblivion. In the first instance, there are two gaps, we could call them Hermaeus Mora and Namira. When we add another stick, two more appear. We could call them Hircine and Meridia. When we added the Mara stick, another two appeared. Let's call them Azura and Vaermina.
And so on, until we get all eight Aedra and sixteen Daedra represented by sticks and gaps. Yet there are always one extra of each Sheogorath and Lorkhan. Consider the 36 Lessons:
Look at its center and all you see is the begotten hole, second serpent, womb-ready for the Right Reaching, exact and without enchantment.'
And what is this hole? The sithis shaped hole, maybe?
I hope this makes what I'm trying to get across a little clearer, although it is by no means the only way to see it, as Tom amd others have said. It's just how I like to look at it in order for it to make sense.
16 spokes, 16 gaps... Hmmm. Spokes don't run the entire diameter of a circle, only the radius. This technically has 16 spokes.
Ha Ok Al, let's call it instead a hurling disc with sticks in, vomiting its way through the void
I feel I should explain myself further. In fig 1 below we'll add the first spoke to the wheel stick to the disc. We'll call it Akatosh, or Time. Now time and space are linked, just like in rl physics. When time forms, so does space. When we look at it like that, Tom's Lorkhan cunundrum resolves itself. Consider these words from Eight Aedra:
is it any wonder that the Time God would hate the same-twin on the other end of the aurbrilical cord, the Space God? That any Creation would become so utterly dangerous because of that singular fear of a singular word's addition: "I AM NOT"?
Fig 1
Next we'll add another stick to the disc, this one we'll call Kynareth. In fig 2 below we can see that the "hub", Mundus, isn't yet formed.
Fig 2
In my final diagram below, we are adding another stick. This one we'll call Mara. With the third god added, Mundus is really starting to form. When all eight sticks are added, we get the image I posted earlier which appears to be 16 lines. When we understand that the formation of the hub relies upon the interaction of all eight sticks, we realise that centre isn't an addition, rather it is the result the lines intersecting one another.
Now, with each stick added, a gap between them is also added - a realm of Oblivion. In the first instance, there are two gaps, we could call them Hermaeus Mora and Namira. When we add another stick, two more appear. We could call them Hircine and Meridia. When we added the Mara stick, another two appeared. Let's call them Azura and Vaermina.
And so on, until we get all eight Aedra and sixteen Daedra represented by sticks and gaps. Yet there are always one extra of each Sheogorath and Lorkhan. Consider the 36 Lessons:
Look at its center and all you see is the begotten hole, second serpent, womb-ready for the Right Reaching, exact and without enchantment.'
And what is this hole? The sithis shaped hole, maybe?
I hope this makes what I'm trying to get across a little clearer, although it is by no means the only way to see it, as Tom amd others have said. It's just how I like to look at it in order for it to make sense.
