Four Symbols

myth:four_symbols

And the sky itself was quartered into four great beasts: the Azure Dragon of the East and the spring, the Vermilion Bird of the South and the summer, the White Tiger of the West and the autumn, and the Black Tortoise of the North and the winter — each presiding over seven of the twenty-eight lunar lodges into which the Chinese divided the band of the heavens. The seasons and the sky written as four animals. — Chinese astronomy