The four main points on a compass are: north, east, south and west. A compass is used to work out direction. A four-point compass can give a rough direction whereas a sixteen-point compass is much ...

“Every culture has its southerners,” Susan Sontag writes in her 1992 novel, “The Volcano Lover,” set in Naples. According to the stereotype, southerners are unrefined but also uninhibited ...

Primarily, the compass was used for geomancy for a long time before ... The inner circle had the eight trigrams and the outer circle the 24 directions (based on azimuth points).