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Mario Garza | Symbolic Studies: The Polar System, Circumambulation Rituals, & Portals to the Heavens
The Polar King and the Quartering of Land
Ancient kingship was modeled after the "Polar King" who ruled from a central location, dividing the land into four quarters. This "centrography" established the king as the unmoved mover who unified heaven and earth. Symbols like the number four, the Emperor card, and the glyph of Jupiter all stem from this tradition of the central cross and the transcendental fifth point at its center.