Letters have rotated over time. Writing method can influence optimal direction. If letters are chiseled in stone, the mallet might be held in the dominant (typically right) hand, and writing would proceed from right towards the midline, and further left. In the beginning, writing was holy. It was a sacred, magical art. (That is why arrangement of letters is called spelling, it is said.) Communication was top down, gods to man. It was applied to vertical monuments, with words spoken by gods, and addressed to gods. Over time, lateral communication, writing about mundane affairs, directed to fellow human beings, became more common, and writing became horizontal in orientation for secular purposes. It is interesting to reflect if the hand moves toward or away from the heart when writing. In English for a right-handed person, writing moves away from the heart, while for the left-hander, writing starts away from the body and moves more centrally. Also, sacred original (natural) writing: is top down. It follows the direction of the sun, rising in the east, and setting in the west. This is right to left on the page. Writing affiliated symbolically with the underworld, the western hemisphere, the underworld from the perspective of the near east, follows the opposite convention. CCH draft 2022~9 Chinese writing in columns, Counter - trade token writing, stele like Hammurabi, 10 Commandments original direction was broken? 2022-9-7, 2022-9-3