the past4. This is crucial to much human, and especially religious experience and practice. We ‘see’ the past, which thus provides us, through memory and narrative, with accounts of how we came to be where we are. Such accounts are often called ‘myth’. Even our modern forms of history are mythical in so far as we see ‘teachings’ in our reflexion on the past. 1.4 Orientation ii): the West As we face East, it follows that the West is behind us. This is borne out by the vocabulary. In the same way