Rosettes foldout: cardinal directions?

[Koen G]

Don't ask me how I know that, it's more of a guess.

I hate to unleash my inner Diane, but... If it's a guess, then you don't know it. We will get nowhere if people keep assuming positions with zero evidence, since it will cause them to reject actual evidence when it shows up. Our job is not to "bet" on the correct answer, hoping to say "I knew it!" when it is proven.

The blessing of discussing the cardinal directions in isolation is that it can happen without excessive reliance on different theories. There are two suns, so we know that if the cardinal directions are relevant here, these must be east and west. I would argue that the emblem of the bottom left corner is another relatively theory-neutral indication of north. 

(Note: if you turn the page with what I believe is east up, like most medieval maps would have been, then the text of the north-emblem is oriented correctly. This is a relatively weak argument though, since the text of the foldout is oriented in many directions, so the page was likely turned around depending on the area of focus. Or put differently, text orientation could probably be used to prove anything here).

What I don't quite understand is how people see this thing as a clock, or any device with hands at the centre. Isn't the central point too far off-centre for that? If it were something like a clock, wouldn't we expect it to look like the edited version at the bottom?