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Re: uffington horse and the sun
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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.


Well, then every menhir is aligned perfectly to the setting sun.
Just stand in the right place and bingo.

How do you know 'what matters' in terms of where to stand, to see this or that?


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Evergreen Dazed
Posted by Evergreen Dazed
18th August 2017ce
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