Better explanation of origin of tetramorph:

“As our meditation takes us to the next co-centric circle of images, we behold the Christian tetramorph of the winged angel, bull, eagle, and lion. Traditionally, these four are found surrounding sculpted images of Christ on the facades of Gothic cathedrals, symbolizing the four evangelists, and hence, the four revelations of the divine Word.

But, the Christian image is taken from the prophet Ezekial and his vision of an angel ‘As I looked, behold… a great cloud with brightness.. From the midst of it came the likeness of four living creatures… Each had the face of a man in front… the face of a lion on the right side… the face of an ox on the left side [and] the face of an eagle on the back.’(Ezekial 1:4) Ezekial himself derived this imagery from Babylonia and its large sculpted door guardians symbolizing the four directions and the four seasons (each season beginning with a sign of the Zodiac: Aquarius the man, Leo the lion, Taurus the bull, and Scorpio who appeared as an eagle). We have once more a complex image: firstly, of revelation through the Word, and secondly, of space and time as they frame the hidden, underlying Unity. “

Holy moses! This page about the “correspondances of four” has one fucking killer chart on it - about the mysteries of the universe, no less!

Also, I’ve learned that the tetramorph component animals can be seen in the corners of the World card in the Tarot deck.