From `Herodotus on Egypt' (written c. 430 BCE)

 "After Proteus, they told me, Rhampsinitos [Ramesses] received in succession the kingdom,
 who left as a memorial of himself that gateway to the temple of Hephaistos [at Memphis]
 which is turned towards the West, and in front of the gateway he set up two statues, in
 height five-and-twenty cubits, of which the one which stands on the North side is called
 by the Egyptians Summer and the one on the South side Winter; and to that one which they
 call Summer they do reverence and make offerings, while to the other which is called Winter
 they do the opposite of these things."

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 The Meso-American empires' peoples - inc.  Olmec - Maya - Toltec - Mixtec - Aztec - seemed
 to do the same with their shrines where possible.

 In many city and valley lay-outs the northern-most point is occupied by a pyramid or temple
 dedicated to Moon (or Sun), while at the opposite southermost point along the central axis
 there's a pyramid or temple to the `God of the Underground' (or Quetzalcoatl).

 North is `good' - South is `bad'


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