"Each prince is associated with a cardinal direction: north, south, east, west."
Also, Four Hourseman of the Apoc:
Death, Famine, War, and Conquest
https://
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Apocalypse
Each subset of the /_\ could be responsible for one 'horse', as it were… i.e. Monsanto = Famine, etc.