[Blog Post] An Allegory of Salvation (Koen Gheuens & Cary Rapaport)

[Mark Knowles]

Ah, I see. It is because you think the castle rosette represents North, so necessary the sun must move away from it. So you see the sun facing the horizon as going under, while I see it as rising above. I think both suns are simply facing the direction of movement.

If you haven't already mentioned it, there is a train of thought that argues that the bottom left "clock" is actually a compass pointing north, which is consistent with the top left sun representing east and the bottom right sun representing west.

If the T/O map is of the "Asia", "Europe" and "Africa" kind then that also fits with South being towards the top right corner.