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    According to a quick Google search, it turns out that the Greek wind rose has the names of certain Greek gods of the winds. The names in this particular wind rose—which is also upside down—are Notus, Libonotus, Lips, Zephyrus, Argestes, Thrascias, Aparctias, Meses, Hellespontias, Apeliotes, Eurus, and Phoenicias. All the Greek names in this wind rose has a Roman equivalent. There's some more information here.

    Thanks for sharing them, they're beautiful

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    Quote Originally Posted by SkryNRiv View Post
    According to a quick Google search, it turns out that the Greek wind rose has the names of certain Greek gods of the winds. The names in this particular wind rose—which is also upside down—are Notus, Libonotus, Lips, Zephyrus, Argestes, Thrascias, Aparctias, Meses, Hellespontias, Apeliotes, Eurus, and Phoenicias. All the Greek names in this wind rose has a Roman equivalent. There's some more information here.

    Thanks for sharing them, they're beautiful
    I can't read the Latin one obviously, but I do see it has Phoenix as one of the directions. And that almost all of them have a completely different name rather than a variant of the cardinal directions.

    I think it's interesting that some of the roses call the directions by the lands that are in those directions from the countries of origin. For instance the Italian one has the Levant and "Greco" as directions.

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