By day he was guided by the rising and setting sun but also by the ocean herself, the mother of life.

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The rising and setting of the sun controls many of our daily rituals, from when we eat breakfast in the morning to when we wind down at night.

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Setting out on an ocean voyage, with water in gourds and pounded tubers tied up in leaves, he would point his canoe into the right slant of wind, and then along a path between a rising star and an opposite, setting one.

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The Wyoming teachers work in shifts that begin when the sun is setting in America and rising in Asia.

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