The Ayamara people in the Andes say the future is behind them and the past is in front of them, i.e., what you can't or don't know is behind you because you can't see behind you, ( unless you have eyes in the back of your head) and what you do know (the past) is "in front of you" because it is familiar.
Funny how cultures view time-lines differently. It seems a given ( to me) that the future is to the front and the past, behind...but it doesn't have to be...and to some people it isn't.
On that note, Happy Solstice and see you in the New Year.