If the sun doesn't rise in the East, where in hell does it rise? And how do ants know this?

During the hot season in Thailand, it rises in the northeast, at an azimuth of 23 degrees above due east, same as the tilt of the earth's axis toward the sun, as you can see on my pub sketch.

And it sets in the northwest, 23 degrees above the west. So really all you need to know is the tilt of the axis toward the sun, and that will tell you the direction of sunrise and sunset.

Here is an equation for the angle:

azimuth (above east or west)=-23.4*cos(360*(m+.3)/12)

where m is the month 0 to 12 (eg 1.5=feb 15)

Now the amazing thing is that with an MIT degree I didn't know this when I came to Thailand, I thought that the sun rose due east! 

Even an ant, with no MIT degree, knows better! (More on this later). My mother, with 2 years of Boston Teachers College, who taught me astronomy with an apple and an orange, knew better!