Re: CHAT: Directions
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, July 8, 1999, 22:50 |
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Kristian Jensen wrote:
> I like them. It could be realistic too. I can imagine why west is
> associated with shadow being that the sun sets in the west. But I
> fail to see why east would be associated with sky. Perhaps you
> could elaborate?
Literally, both mean "place of the suns", the East was originally seen
as the suns' home, so to speak, the place where it slept at night. The
sky is where the suns are in the day.
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