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[Alexandr Korol]

Mystic-Old-Man: No, provided that you organize the system like that, but not otherwise.
Alexandr: Okay, then I’ll put it differently. So if I take the seven days in a week, and from one side depict six of them with the seventh in the center, and from the other side take the same six but as if under the Moon, also placing the seventh in the center, overlaying them, I get twelve and some kind of center. And this twelve — is it the twelve signs of the Zodiac?
Mystic-Old-Man: Alex, but you organize the system — I emphasize, it doesn’t matter how you organize it.
Alexandr: You mean, I organize it as I please, or is it something that was already discovered or existed before?
Mystic-Old-Man: No, this path has been walked many times already.
Alexandr: Exactly! You see, I’m just deciphering mythology, I don’t actually want to invent my own.
Mystic-Old-Man: That’s why I answered your question.
Alexandr: So, did you answer the question that I invented it myself?
Mystic-Old-Man: No, you are organizing the system once again.
Alexandr: Okay. Next. We are living in 2025, and we have four seasons. Which of these seasons is the most stressful for me? For someone like me.
Mystic-Old-Man: Autumn.
Alexandr: The most stressful time. And what about the easiest and happiest?
Mystic-Old-Man: Spring begins to act like that.
Alexandr: Can I influence this or is it just how the mood will be?
Mystic-Old-Man: That will be the mood.
Alexandr: Okay, another very interesting question. The system showed me how to clone a cube into five cubes. For example, there is a main one, and you can have several more around it, rotated at different angles, like a flower unfolded. Following this principle, I found four cherubs who guard the throne, because these are just cubes inside each other at different angles, which creates a star shape because the corners point in different directions. And I found one principle about which degree of the circle the cube needs to be rotated. I found a second principle. Now I need to find more principles so that, thanks to this rotating cube, I form a sphere with a point around it. And here is my question: How many such cubes do I need to rotate? How many cubes are there in total?