Re: uffington horse and the sun | Forum

thesweetcheat Aug 18, 2017 13:16:39

Replying to Evergreen Dazed

Yes, we should do that.

I still think much of the paper is flawed as I said last night, and there's absolutely no evidence to support the theory that links the horse to the sun.

But I am going to dig my (spurred) heels in over the fact that the horse faces to the right, and the sunset is further to the right of that, so the horse is facing towards the sunset. This doesn't prove intention or even a link with the sun, but is a factual aspect of the design and was what I assume tjj would have seen from the train line as sunset approached.

I think we ought to be standing quite a long way back though, a few miles away, down on the vale. Standing up on Dragon Hill isn't going to be rewarding, the sun will be doing its thing behind the hillside - Dragon Hill is quite low down.

Cadbury's should make Uffington horse biscuits, with corrugated chocolate on one side and a nice biscuity rendering of the horse on the other.

Evergreen Dazed Aug 18, 2017 13:27:13

Replying to thesweetcheat

But tjj said she was travelling in July. The setting sun would have been in (broadly ;)) the NW. That could not possibly work Alken.

When you say 'facing the sunset', do you mean the body of the horse facing the sunset or the head pointing toward the sunset?

If we're going with the 'galloping' thing, you surely mean the head 'toward' the sunset, which as the sun was in the NW is absolutely wrong in every possible way.

tiompan Aug 18, 2017 13:32:44

Replying to thesweetcheat

thesweetcheat wrote:

But I am going to dig my (spurred) heels in over the fact that the horse faces to the right, and the sunset is further to the right of that, so the horse is facing towards the sunset.

But the horse is not facing towards the sunset , it is facing to a part of the horizon where the sun is never seen to set from the perspective of the horse . If you want to see the sun set somewhere you just adjust your viewing position ,but we are talking about viewing from the perspective of the orientation of the horse .
Ignoring that all important perspective is having your jaffa and digestive and eating both packets .

Evergreen Dazed Aug 18, 2017 13:35:40

Replying to thesweetcheat

TSC, I will be going to Dragon Hill for sunrise.

I doubt i'll stay around later that day to look at the horse not pointing at the sunset.