[time-nuts] Widdershins

2012-06-26 Thread Bill Hawkins
Around 1530, it was considered very bad luck to walk around a church widdershins (see the Wikipedia article). I think it goes back earlier than that, to a time well before clocks. If widdershins means counter-clockwise, how did they know which way clocks ran? The answer lies in northern

Re: [time-nuts] Widdershins

2012-06-26 Thread Don Latham
It's also connected to handedness. widdershins means to go leftwise, deasil righthanded or rightwise. lefthandedness bad, righthandedness good. Threads righthanded usually, bunches of other stuff. Don Bill Hawkins Around 1530, it was considered very bad luck to walk around a church widdershins

Re: [time-nuts] Widdershins

2012-06-26 Thread bg
Direct GPS signals, RHCP, good! Reflections (multipath) LHCP bad! ;-) -- Björn It's also connected to handedness. widdershins means to go leftwise, deasil righthanded or rightwise. lefthandedness bad, righthandedness good. Threads righthanded usually, bunches of other stuff. Don

Re: [time-nuts] Widdershins

2012-06-26 Thread Bob Camp
: time-nuts-boun...@febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-boun...@febo.com] On Behalf Of Bill Hawkins Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2012 2:06 PM To: 'Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement' Subject: [time-nuts] Widdershins Around 1530, it was considered very bad luck to walk around a church widdershins

Re: [time-nuts] Widdershins

2012-06-26 Thread ehydra
Bill Hawkins schrieb: Around 1530, it was considered very bad luck to walk around a church widdershins (see the Wikipedia article). I think it goes back earlier than that, to a time well before clocks. They wrote at Wiki: Because the sun played a highly important role in primitive religion,

Re: [time-nuts] Widdershins

2012-06-26 Thread Don Latham
:06 PM To: 'Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement' Subject: [time-nuts] Widdershins Around 1530, it was considered very bad luck to walk around a church widdershins (see the Wikipedia article). I think it goes back earlier than that, to a time well before clocks

Re: [time-nuts] Widdershins

2012-06-26 Thread Jim Lux
On 6/26/12 11:05 AM, Bill Hawkins wrote: Around 1530, it was considered very bad luck to walk around a church widdershins (see the Wikipedia article). I think it goes back earlier than that, to a time well before clocks. If widdershins means counter-clockwise, how did they know which way clocks

Re: [time-nuts] Widdershins

2012-06-26 Thread ehydra
Jim Lux schrieb: widdershins derives from Middle low german weddersines from Middle High German widersinnes, wider=back + sinnes=in the direction of widersinnig means 'nonsense' = not useful in the common thinking. The german wider- means 'against something'. There is another german word