Note 270 — Chapter IV · MARKET DAYS

Sir T. S. Raffles, History of Java,² London, 1830, i, 531; P. J. Veth, Java,² Haarlem, 1907, iv, 296 sqq. The names of the days in the pasar were considered to bear a mystical relation to colours and the divisions of the horizon, the first day (white, east), the second (red, south), the third (yellow, west), the fourth (black, north), and the fifth day a mixed colour, and focus, or centre. See John Crawfurd, History of the Indian Archipelago, Edinburgh, 1820, i, 289 sq. These fancies must be explained by the colour symbolism which so frequently attaches to the cardinal points.