Aboriginal time runs east to west


Source:  Bruce Bower, Science News

Excerpt: Sun’s trajectory may channel time’s flow for one remote group. …Time rises in the east and sets in the west in a remote part of Australia. Aborigines living there assume that time moves westward, apparently in accord with the sun’s daily arc across the sky, say Stanford University psychologist Lera Boroditsky and linguist Alice Gaby of the University of California, Berkeley. ...For them, time flows from left to right when facing south, from right to left when facing north, toward the body when facing east and away from the body when facing west....



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