32 Wind Compass Rose

in blog •  6 years ago 

32 Wind Compass Rose

I'll use the 32 compass winds in the next serie of posts, so I thought of posting this first, I'll link to this post and let the image available for reference later, but without further ado, the 32 Wind respective names, as usually taught, read clockwise starting at the North point:



image from Laurent Lazard

N - North

NbE - North by East
NNE - North Northeast
NEbN - Northeast by North

NE - Northeast

NEbE - Northeast by East
ENE - East Northeast
EbN - East by North

E - East

EbS - East by South
ESE - East Southeast
SEbE - Southeast by East

SE - Southeast

SEbS - Southeast by South
SSE - South Southeast
SbE - South by East

S - South

SbW - South by West
SSW - South Southwest
SWbS - Southwest by South

SW - Southwest

SWbW - Southwest by West
WSW - West Southwest
WbS - West by South

W - West

WbN - West by North
WNW - West Northwest
NWbyN - Northwest by North

NW - Northwest

NWbW - Northwest by West
NNW - North Northwest
NbW - North by West




In Lak'ech Ala K'in

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