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Why four? This kind of reasoning just keeps us reformulating our questions. Why not choose say 2 cardinal points? After all there seem to have been just 2 seasons once upon a time, summer and not-summer. With 2 seasons one could choose as cardinal points the solstices or the equinoxes, preferably the latter because they would be easier to measure. I imagine that with timber houses four corners is the easy way. But on Easter Island that was not the case. Instead they used canoe-shaped houses, i.e. just two corners. Or why not choose 5 cardinal points and get a pentagon? That would be elegant, because 365 / 5 = 73 days, not leaving any remainder. Number 5 is here connected with 73 in the same way as when we find that 4 is connected with 7 * 13 = 91 in 364 / 4. I remember words of my favourite philosopher (Charles Fort): "One measures a circle, beginning anywhere." To avoid this arbitrariness we must search for clues from Mother Nature telling us where truth lies. We must open our eyes. Truth comes through the eyes, not through the ears. But for the moment it is enough to note that the numbers 4, 7 and 13 form one possible group to reflect a year with 364 days.
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