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| July 16, 2007 04:07PM |
>A dogmatic adherence to a convention of AE directional orientation of
>facing the south and robotically demanding that 'south-is-up' apparently
>must require that trees grow upside down.
I think the best way to understand this is to view South as being "Up River" and North as being "Down River", as that's the direction the Nile flows. You do have to look South to see Orion, but I don't think that means the AEs exclusively viewed the heavens from that perspective. FWIW, I think the four faces of a pyramid represent the quarter of the sky they are facing. i.e. they each represent the Heavens as a whole, so making an individual pyramid representig an individual star would have been a very strange idea to the AEs
-Joe.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/16/2007 04:13PM by Joe_S.
>facing the south and robotically demanding that 'south-is-up' apparently
>must require that trees grow upside down.
I think the best way to understand this is to view South as being "Up River" and North as being "Down River", as that's the direction the Nile flows. You do have to look South to see Orion, but I don't think that means the AEs exclusively viewed the heavens from that perspective. FWIW, I think the four faces of a pyramid represent the quarter of the sky they are facing. i.e. they each represent the Heavens as a whole, so making an individual pyramid representig an individual star would have been a very strange idea to the AEs
-Joe.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/16/2007 04:13PM by Joe_S.
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