Pyramids, Yin-Yang Hill and the four Greek Elements

One of the oldest images for Yin-Yang appears to have been the shady and sunny sides of a hill (which rotate during the course of a day, since the sun moves resp. the earth rotates). Applying this image mentally to one of the great pyramids in Giza a few weeks ago, I playfully attributed opposites dry/wet and hot/cold to the corners of the pyramid - since the sun heats and dries - so that I found something that reminds quite a bit of Aristotle's definition of the four Greek elements in terms of these two pairs of opposites: Fire dry+hot (summer/south), Water wet+cold (winter/north), Air wet+hot (spring/east), Earth dry+cold (autumn/west). Note that the symbols for the four elements in the West are all triangles, like the four faces of a pyramid. See the article for a few more playful considerations:

English: https://www.exactphilosophy.net/the-...r-elements.pdf
German: https://www.exactphilosophy.net/die-...r-elemente.pdf
French (abbreviated): https://www.exactphilosophy.net/les-...e-elements.pdf

Note that in ancient Egyptian mythology, the sun god Ra would fight each night with the snake Apophis/Apep, so Ra would likely be south/fire and Apophis north/(water?), which reminds of the 4 Symbols in China, where similarly the snake+tortoise would be north and the bird/phoenix south...

If you are interested in the ancient Greek elements, here would be another article I wrote with two new ideas (yes, the filename is really that long):

https://www.exactphilosophy.net/the-...ratic-oath.pdf

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