Four

• Four is associated with Season.

  A four-season year is one local habit of dividing light and weather. It is not universal.

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• Four is associated with Circle.

  Four winds or directions are often drawn as a cross in a circle. The drawing is a map-habit, not a proof of cosmic order.

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• Four is associated with Calendar.

  Some calendars quarter a year. Four is that architecture, not a luck charm.

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• Calendar is associated with Four.

  Some year-schemes quarter the year. Four here is a seasonal architecture, not a luck number.

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• Southern Cross is associated with Four.

  The familiar asterism is four bright arms. That is a sky-shape, not a Christian crucifix and not a Mesoamerican world-direction cross.

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• Five is opposed to Four.

  Four directions and fivefold Chinese schemes are easy to rhyme. They are different local maps of the world, not a debate the numbers themselves are having.

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Islam

• Qibla is associated with Four.

  Facing one direction organizes space. It is not a four-direction cosmology of another continent.

  from M.A.S. Abdel Haleem (translation) · The Qur’an, 2004 (this translation); Arabic text 7th century CE

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