Each mountain/peak is representative of a color, direction, and correlates with a cultural light phenomenon dealing with the cosmic scheme of the rising and of the setting sun. Directionally, the mountains are described in a clockwise motion following the movement of the Sun beginning with the eastern mountain of Blanca Peak. Blanca Peak is associated with the color white and the Dawn Man referring to the rising of the sun. Next in the south is Mount Taylor, which is associated with the color blue and the Horizontal Blue Man referring to the daytime. In the west is the San Francisco Peaks, which is representative of the color yellow and the Horizontal Yellow Woman and is associated with the setting of the sun. And finally in the north is the Hesperus Peak of the La Plata Mountains which is given the color black and belongs to the light phenomenon of the Darkness Woman representing the nighttime.