[time-nuts] Widdershins

bg at lysator.liu.se bg at lysator.liu.se
Tue Jun 26 18:19:28 UTC 2012


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    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
>
> 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
>>
>>
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