without being too many to remember

People used to have no problem remembering the names of at least eight winds, depending on the direction…

Here are the ones used in Catalonia, for instance; we were taught them at school:

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Though, to be fair, llevant means where the sun rises and ponent where it sets, migjorn means midday, which makes sense given the other two, and everyone already knew tramuntana, cause it’s a headache when it blows, so it’s mostly the other four we have to remember… the Greek one seems quite harder, though, then again, I’m not Greek…:

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