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[Linda]

Interesting, i hadnt seen either as winds. But that and the relation to Ptolemy and the precursor to the almanac is triply correlative for me, although i havent got the parallels straight in my head yet.

I had thought of f83v2 to indicate mountains and different kinds of rock and minerals, and how sediment and sand and soil derive from the breakdown of larger units of rock. I thought perhaps the birds and people were there because without soil, you do not have plants, and without plants you do not have animals or people...perhaps that interpretation can stand in parallel with a wind based one?

It seems Koen has this as the four winds of Ovid, are they analogous to yours? 

Homeric winds, the first four were basic Greek winds, then they noticed the sun was in a different place in summer than winter so added the winter winds...it is possible this was not actually Homer's doing though.


Aristotlean winds


Timosthenes, with Conversion to Latin names


Mariners Compass Rose


Funny, another mention of Matthew Paris, he tried to correlate the classical winds with the marine winds.