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 (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 hemisphere sundials. When clocks with > faces were invented, they ran in the same direction as the shadow > of the gnomon on a sundial. > > Widdershins also means anti-sunwise, which would be blasphemous to > people that used to believe that the sun was a powerful god. > > There's lots of angles to this time stuff. > > Bill Hawkins > > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > -- "Neither the voice of authority nor the weight of reason and argument are as significant as experiment, for thence comes quiet to the mind." R. Bacon "If you don't know what it is, don't poke it." Ghost in the Shell Dr. Don Latham AJ7LL Six Mile Systems LLP 17850 Six Mile Road POB 134 Huson, MT, 59846 VOX 406-626-4304 www.lightningforensics.com www.sixmilesystems.com _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.