Waist!

• west

• Face at the waist...: Lord Tennyson, Charge of the Light Brigade: “Cannon to the left of them, cannon to the right of them”

• Face at the waist...: (children's game) "Face to the east, Face to the west/ Face to the one you love the best"

Commentary

Dead bodies are often buried east to west, with the head facing east and their feet to the west. From the Christian point of view this positioning represented the deceased's ability to rise without having to turn around at the call of Gabriel’s trumpet on the Last Day. Gabriel’s trumpet would be blown in the eastern sunrise. From a pagan point of view, it related the deceased to the Sun god, who rises (from the dead) in the east, and sets (dies) in the west.