Rosettes foldout: cardinal directions?

[Searcher]

Looking at the t/o map, we must pay attention that this is not just a circle divided into 3 parts. The pattern around it (strokes and circles), as well as the strange  channel adjacent to the part of the map where Europe should usually be located, tell us that the author wants to show some processes or connections of the globe / world, regardless of whether it is a map of parts of the world or map of elements or something else.