On 09/05/2012 12:37, Kevin Davis wrote:
I suppose the issue is the pole - in northern hemisphere a great deal
hinges around the celestial pole - marked by ursa major etc -
in southern hemisphere has to be southern cross? - not sure how
followers of runes trads cope - or indeed setians etc -
But historically people have often migrated from their original sacred
geographical centre but take it with them -
renaming local features as local ganges etc.
The ancient Egyptians had a concept of local north determined by flow of
the Nile (norminally south-north)
- which varied a bit (often a lot) depending on the meanderings of the
river.
Mogg
> I think that the direction for circumambulation should be reversed, but why the change in attributions? This seems unnecessary: The difference is one of solar orientation; north is still north, etc.
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> Kevin L. Davis
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> --- On Wed, 5/9/12, D G Mattichak jr<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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