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tiompan
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Re: uffington horse and the sun
Aug 18, 2017, 17:14
thesweetcheat wrote:
tiompan wrote:
From the horse , given clear skies , you can face every sun set and sun rise on every day of the year , so what ? it is meaningless .


But why are you assuming the intention is to be looking "from the horse".

The view of the horse is far better appreciated from a distance, from the vale below. I don't think it matters what you can see from the horse. What matters is what you can see when viewing the horse from its optimum position (i.e. from a distance). And from a distance, the head of the horse is on the right, as will the setting sun be from the point of a viewer looking towards the horse from the vale.


Because the number of other choices are immense and there is nothing to suggest why a particular place was chosen ,other than it fits some agenda .Given the huge number of choices any number of agenda can be shown to be "correct" .
Further , the paper talks about the direction the horse "appears" to be moving /galloping , well we know the answer to that and it is not towards any sunset .

The setting sun is no more salient than the rising sun ,it was only mentioned as it is the closer of the two possibilities ,but as noted in the problems about compartmentalising every feature that has a direction , left or right only works in the real world when the feature is close to east or west , in this case it is actually a very long way from pointing to the sunset .The "right" that the horse is facing in is quite different from the "right " where you will see the sunset . By allowing everything to have a left or right regardless of their actual orientation means everything with a direction and a front will fit into your schema including contemporary hill figures .
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