NorthWest --Vayu the wind-god (personifying the wind-tunnel with its straight-blowing winds, in contrast to whirlwinds)

NorthWest --actual direction of <ol-mo-lun-rin (Olmaliq) from Bod, though variously said (A&S, pp. 481-3) to be to the W. or N.: approach to it is stated (A&S, p. 106) to be via "a great tunnel" pierced by "an arrow"

"... he enters a mountain through a cave which leads to the" world of the dead (TB, p. 51)

NorthWest --mountain to be traversed underground via tunnel, entrance whereto is guarded by "mad arrow" (laja) (ThWISh, p. 239)

NorthWest -- (LWhW, p. 112, fn. 19) as the direction of Maranai = Hawai'ian malanai "Name of a gentle breeze" (HD)

West -- Varun.a, cognate with [Hellenic] Olumpos the mountain

{Cf. [Aztec migration-myth of] Culhuacan the "bent mountain", known also to the Choctaw in their migration-myth}

West --overhanging mountain (ibid, p. 238)

West? -- the great mountain Tawhiti-nui (LWhW, p. 113)

Southwest -- +DANU (OWhT, p. 513): with the +DANa[W]ides, women who wore deadly hair-pins in their hair, cf. the "hair-bridge" (RRWD, p. 455) walked by the dead

SouthWest -- "bridge of terror" (titi rawan) (ibid., p. 240)

South -- Yama the ruler of the underworld

South ---Taheke-roa(?) long descent into Raro-hena = volcano of Whakaru-ai-moko

"the circles of Yoginis that rise into the air at the conclusion of their cremation-ground rites" (KY, p. 231)

i.e., in circle. [These must be something other than the lunar mansions, who had been enumerated ibid., p. 127. Perhaps they are personified whirlwinds.]

SouthEast? -- Te Ara-tiatia "the way [via] steps", ascended taiapo ("arm-in-arm") (LWhW, p. 128) into the sky upon titi (whirlwinds)

East -- Indra "ruler"

"rulers .... dissolving back up the dmu thag ["sky rope"] at death and so leaving no corpses" (FBTB, p . 21)

East -- "suspended rope" for ascension at Ara-toi-huarewa "way dangling"