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"In remote antiquity, people knotted cords to keep things in order..... "
[Wang Bi, Commentary on the appended phrases, hexagram 43]
See also the remarks to this passage in Wilhelm/Baynes, Book 2, Ta Chuan, Ch. II, pg 336 in the 1968 ed.
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https://www.svenrus.dk/inkamanuskript.pdf
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" 'In early times (King Fu-hsi) used knots of rope to rule the country (to communicate with the people) and in later years the sage changed them into written documents." Among the Miao people in Southern China, they still use knots of rope to reckon and to communicate with each other. "
pg. 247 Note 24 in this document: https://www.biroco.com/yijing/Shih-chuan_Chen.pdf
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(Article in AtlasObscura)
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For my part, I find it remarkable that the same system for communicating took place both in China and Peru in a distant past when no contact existed between those two places (Or?)
[Wang Bi, Commentary on the appended phrases, hexagram 43]
See also the remarks to this passage in Wilhelm/Baynes, Book 2, Ta Chuan, Ch. II, pg 336 in the 1968 ed.
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https://www.svenrus.dk/inkamanuskript.pdf
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" 'In early times (King Fu-hsi) used knots of rope to rule the country (to communicate with the people) and in later years the sage changed them into written documents." Among the Miao people in Southern China, they still use knots of rope to reckon and to communicate with each other. "
pg. 247 Note 24 in this document: https://www.biroco.com/yijing/Shih-chuan_Chen.pdf
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(Article in AtlasObscura)
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For my part, I find it remarkable that the same system for communicating took place both in China and Peru in a distant past when no contact existed between those two places (Or?)