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Interesting how something we take so for granted is really not inevitable at all. I was curious about maps with north on top, and googled my question. Results were so diverse over time.
Sandy ~ You caused me to look at "upside down" maps, and that automatically exposed me to articles discussing the psychological impact of the conventional north=up orientation. Some writers attribute the fact that northern countries are richer to the suggestive influence of these maps.
Hmm.
I can't imagine that centuries of raiding Vikings and toiling European peasants gave much thought to maps as they lay the foundation for their economies.
Or that the great northeast and northwestern migrations of early tribal mankind (from our African Genesis) gave much thought to Mercator projections.
"[Pond &] Molar Composites"
The pastor concluded her sermon with a set piece,
a parable for us to weigh at home.
"The ripples of a pond may never cease,
though not perceived by the naked eye alone.
Likewise a hungry tooth continues to bite,
unless met with and sated in the natural way.
God-given functions perform as is right;
interfere at your peril: 'Give them this day'."
~ OMK
My actual question was, "why is the north pole at the tops of the world?". And that sent me to a BBC.com article which described early Chinese maps with south at the top, though with some the north for a royal reason; to Egyptian maps oriented to the east; to Islamic maps oriented to the south, as well as Christian maps of that period. The writer describes Mercator's map as a defining moment.
Well, clearly there's nothing magical about north. I just found it so interesting to think about what we assume is natural as really quite artificial and arbitrary.
The cartoon certainly has a somewhat tilted north at the top.
"Mellow Fellow"
We recently had a pastor
who was a clever fore-caster.
The day he lost his tooth
he said we would learn the truth.
He predicted our troubles would cease
as soon as we paid our lease.
And if liquor we stopped to tipple
our future would have a good ripple.
We may have been sort of opposites,
but he gave us no hassles or fits.
Yes, he possibly was bi-polar,
but still a joy, and a treat, and a roller.
Misty ~ Your "Mellow Fellow" was a joy for me too. His mood swings reminded me of the real life pastor of our Presbyterian church when I was a kid. My mom, who only attended on Easter, gave up on him when he wasted one Easter sermon railing against the Catholic Church a block away for its alleged cheating on some real estate deal.
He was a case, a craggy Scotsman over six feet tall who used to sign his mailed bulletins, "Your little minister." He denied my scout group the right to use our rec hall for meetings when we admitted a Black friend to our troop. Not exactly "mellow," he preached real "hassles and fits" when it came to formal adherence to the Commandments and he was especially demanding of greater charity in his collection plates.
A year after I was away at school, I read that he was arrested for taking kickbacks from florists who served the church for weddings and funerals.
Whatta guy!
We could have used your poetic pastor!
~ OMK
Sandy ~ I suppose one "given" is that the North Pole is going to end up at one of the four vertical or horizontal extremities.
There may be nothing magical about "up," but there is surely something logical about the axes--up, down, left, or right. And the early discovery of magnetic north--the "pole" itself, and the fact that we revolve on an axis--pretty much dictates to cartographers to stick it at one of those major points.
~ OMK
Loved your sophisticated pastor rhyme, Ol' Man Keith, and worried a little that my bipolar pastor rhyme might be considered offensive.
So it was a great relief to read your amazing pastor story! How interesting that he made his faults so highly visible without understanding them, and that this extended to his most fundamental regard for rules and justice. I'm glad that justice caught up with him in the end. Proves that we have a higher power governing our world after all.
Yes, I believe that the placement of north at the top of maps generally dates from the 16th century, from the Western world. And spread from there.
Perhaps the use of Polaris to guide a
seafarers had something to do with North on the top. In the early 1500s the Pipe divided the "Globe" in a N-S line. Everything East was for Portugal, West Spain. Probably the reason for the resistance to later evidence that America was visited centuries before.
In the early Church Bishops had retirees known as Senorees that were essentially spies on the local priests.
Our Priest thought it okay to mention Trump's thousand lies. Bishop caught on quick and gave the "UH UH". Priest was quietly "retired" a few months later.
WC
Wilbur, did the bishop, et al, give any concrete reason for the removal?
Priest was old. He could have said one or two masses a week but was retired for health reasons.
The retirement communities in Florida are overwhelmingly Republican and Trumpers no matter what.
Nicest lady imaginable responded "What lies?".
WC
What lies indeed!
It's sadly true.
Among hardcore Trumpians, the man is reputed to "tell it like it is." They like how he "cuts through all the political BS."
Hard for the rest of us to grasp, but there it is.
~ OMK
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