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== Literature ==

* In ''[[The Hobbit]]'', the keyhole of Lonely Mountain's hidden entrance is visible only at the right time on Durin's Day, a dwarven holiday.

* Common in riddles in the ''[[Redwall]]'' series, such as in ''Mattimeo'' when the entrance to an underground city is located by following the shadow of a pine tree.

* In a novel of [[Sherlock Holmes]], the eponymous character finds the old crown jewels by the shadow of a tree. A minor twist is that he has to adjust for centuries of growth.

* In the ''[[CSI New York]]'' episode "Manhattanhenge", the search for the Compass Killer's lair and his next target is guided by the suspect's obsession with angles of sunlight over the city. Subverted in that Sheldon calculates in advance where the sunlight will fall, rather than waiting to observe it.

* In the Made For TV Movie ''The Trial of The Incredible Hulk'', Matt Murdock has a clerk use a map of the city, a ruler (representing a specific building), and a table lamp to figure out the location of David's flophouse. David had mentioned the Fisk Building blocking the sun.

* The Anasazi calendar (mentioned below) makes an appearance in an episode of Carl Sagan's ''[[Cosmos]]''.

 

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