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Ana G. doth schreibble : > > Thank you very much, Khem. They are very useful. And here is a relevant excerpt from something else that I posted recently : In the Classic system, we have Air, which is Warm and Moist. It is associated with Dawn and Spring, and the East. As we proceed to Summer in the South, it becomes Hot and Dry ( Fire ). Moisture has been dropped, we increase the quality of Heat, and 'pick up' the Quality of Dryness. In the Northern hemisphere, Summer and Noon are associated with the South. In the Northern hemisphere, the Sun is always as far South as it can get at Noon. As the Sun passes the Noon/Mid-Summer point, things become Cool and Dry, and this pair of Qualities is associated with the element of Earth, and with the West/Sunset. Now we move on to Midnight, and the North. The Qualities are Cold and Moist, and the direction is North. The Nadir of the Sun < in the Northern Hemisphere > is in the North, below the horizon. Which brings us back to Spring. See how one Quality gets 'swapped', and the Elements transform into one another as the Day and the Year proceed? It is a Model of a Heat Engine. There is Heat <and the lack thereof>, and there is Moisture <and the lack thereof>. Midnight and Winter are, in the most general and abstract sense, as Cold as it gets. Noon and Summer are, likewise, as Hot as it gets. It is rather like the Cycle of Precipitation that they used to teach us in Elementary School <way back in the Pliocene Era>. This Cycle of the Elements and the Seasons forms the basis of Astrology, Alchemy and Magic. Here is another version of the same model, still employed in Unani medicine to this day : http://www.unani.com/four_elements.htm Unani is the Arabic word for 'Ionian'; that is, Greek. So, there is your "Compass" - and your "Clock", into the bargain <we're having a Special today> ;) See also : Qualities, Elements, Seasons, Humours http://tinyurl.com/22tnpa The Humours Introduction to Decumbiture by Dylan Warren-Davis http://tinyurl.com/cce7t4 Astrology and Health Vitalism and Humours by Dylan Warren-Davis http://tinyurl.com/2lglm9 Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos http://tinyurl.com/dbzttz Book of the Seven Planets by Ramon Llull http://tinyurl.com/zopuv Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa: Of Occult Philosophy, Book I. (part 1) Chap. iii. Of the four Elements, their Qualities, and Mutual Mixtions. There are four Elements, and original grounds of all corporeal things, Fire, Earth, Water, Air, of which all elementated inferior bodies are compounded; not by way of heaping them up together, but by transmutation, and union; and when they are destroyed, they are resolved into Elements. Now, every one of the Elements hath two specifical qualities, the former whereof it retains as proper to it self, in the other, as a mean, it agrees with that which comes next after it. For Fire is hot and dry, -(Summer) the Earth dry and cold, -(Autumn) the Water cold and moist,-(Winter) the Air moist and hot. -(Spring) And so after this manner the Elements, according to two contrary qualities, are contrary one to the other, as Fire to Water, and Earth to Air. Four Seasons Chess http://tinyurl.com/9mbel Farmer's Chess < with Java app > http://tinyurl.com/azham " Chapter I's Section 1.5 will examine the games of the fifth treatise, chess and backgammon for four rather than two players. Here again, I will discuss the rules for play and the history and evolution of these game modifications. The variations of both games explicitly underscore the importance of the symbolism of the terrestrial number four, aligning the colors of the players' pieces with the four seasons, the four elements and the four humors of the body. This chapter will be of the greatest importance for our understanding of the links which can be established with the similarly symbolic fourhanded, cross-shaped game of pachisi and its significance for the common evolution of these games and their innate metaphors, all of which will be treated in detail in the final chapter of the dissertation. Chess itself represents the four arms of the traditional Indian army as played on a four-sided board as can be deduced from its original name chaturanga (Skt. chatur, "four" and anga "arms, branches"). " ~ from : Los Libros de Acedrex Dados e Tablas: Historical, Artistic and Metaphysical Dimensions of Alfonso X’S Book of Games by Sonja Musser Golladay ( .PDF ) http://tinyurl.com/2b44h7f Enochian Chess http://tinyurl.com/24ejcub The Astrological Origin of Islamic Geomancy by Wim van Binsbergen ( .PDF ) http://tinyurl.com/5b5efx Ripley's Key [ was: Black, White, Green, Red - Alchemy and Enochiana ] Message #4831 of 7137 Sun Apr 29, 2007 10:20 pm http://tinyurl.com/2cjg3go Cors in Manu Domine, ~ Khem Caigan <[log in to unmask]> "Heat and Moisture are Active to Generation; Cold and Dryness are Passive, in and to each Thing; Fire and Air, Active by Elementation; Water and Earth, Passive to Generation." *Of the Division of Chaos* -Dr. Simon Forman