The four-sided central tower is carved with faces, some of which seem to represent Jayavarman in the guise of AvalokiteÅ›-vara, the great bodhisattva. Each side of the tower is oriented to a cardinal direction. |
The pelorus functions as a compass without cardinal direction markers so that navigators can take relative bearings. |
As Ms. Romero walks through the city's maze of sidewalks, the intense sound of traffic actually helps with cardinal direction. |
For example, spiders are relatively restricted in their movements and can move only one space in a cardinal direction at a time. |
We focus our efforts on the composition operator for two cardinal direction relations. |
In fact, he is pointing at a cardinal direction that happens to be behind his back. |