FIG. 2. DIAGRAMS.Other patterns of the preceding diagrams, together with two additional diagrams (those at the
top on the right hand), the method of counting from point to point being that used in each case.Page 555.Most if not all these systems of reckoning seem to have been treated by the
Malays from the astrological point of view as forming a basis for divination, and
these crude notions of the lucky or unlucky nature of certain times and seasons
are to some extent systematised by or in some degree mixed up with the idea of
the mystic influence of numbers and geometrical figures.