Answer:
I am so simple that I can only point. Yet I guide men all over the world.
What word in the English language does the following: the first two letters signify a male, the first three letters signify a female, the first four letters signify a great, while the entire world signifies a great woman. What is the word?
I can be written, I can be spoken, I can be exposed, I can be broken.
It comes only before, it comes only after. Rises only in darkness, but rises only in light. It is always the same, but is yet always different.
What relies on columns but isn't a house, and asks for help but can't speak itself?
I can only be played on a windy day