Vesikaare (Vesikaar)

West-northwest. Interesting... literally ‘water quarter’ or ‘water bearing’, this compass direction, along with Idakaare (E), Läänekaare (W), Põhjakaare (N) occurs in Tallinn streets while Lõunakaar (S) is absent. Is there some atavistic collective subconscious migratory lodestone here? The direction proto-Estonians traveled before coming to a sudden (or at least very wet) halt at the edge of the Baltic Sea as they wended their way toward their Maker (north-west is Loode, related to (?) loe:looja, which also means Creator or, adverbially, setting, as of suns in the evening). And Vesikaare lies along a NW not WNW axis anyway (but see Edela). Or are Estonians just ‘out’ to lunch? See Lõuna which, although claimed to be thus named because it points south, actually starts SSE and ends up SSSE. Or are we too much of a sääsekurnaja (see Sääse)? Perhaps not, previously called Loode... and, briefly, 1940-1941, Loo (not what you think, get your mind out of the gutter...). The explanation is probably much simpler anyway: a wind from this direction may well bring rain. See also Põhja.