[time-nuts] Widdershins

Don Latham djl at montana.com
Tue Jun 26 18:16:59 UTC 2012


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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