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Hi sparhawkWell, this is something that our friend, Lianshan, may enjoy to read.
There is no such source. The origin of the Zhouyi is like a puzzle and the article of Chang Cheng-lang shown in this tread is one of the important pieces of the puzzle. He theorize from the archaeological founds, that the origin of the hexagram lines was made of numbers. If so, then the origin of the Zhouyi hexagrams was numerology, but Zhouyi is not numerology. A broken line is named six in the line judgements but have the shape of number eight. A whole line is named nine in the line judgements but have the shape of number one. The Zhouyi order of the 64 hexagrams is pairs and not numerical.I was wondering for your source that says the Zhou re-wrote the part about the Shang sacrifice.
Wu Ting is ok with me and Fu Tzu instead of Fu Hao? I think it was a great marriageI also have many prognostications of Wu Ting and done by him it says, concerning various divinations concerning her pregnancies, etc. These were found in Tomb 5, but alas the significant divinations were buried with the king.
I really think we should say Wu Ting because there is another Shang King known as Wu Ding who comes not very much later so its confusing.
Hi midaughter. Your mentioning a three-pronged fork as a Fu clan sign may relate to the exavacations of Jiahu? In the news it was announced: "The next day, archaeologists opened Grave M344, and saw an adult male whose head was missing. Where his head would have been were eight sets of tortoise shells and one fork-shaped bone artifact." Fork-shaped artifacts were too found in other graves. Details are described in an article from the Antiquities Journal 2003:They definitely had a clan sign which appears to be a three-pronged fork curved to the left is my guess.
Hi midaugther. It's very inspiring to read your commentOf course there are Zhou contributions are there as well. Remember the Duke of Zhou spent his young adulthood in the shang Court . I think we can reasonably assume he was studying all facets of the Yi.. he may have had written some line statements and/or copied them down to take with him back to his home.
I have searched but could not find a photo. I only found a drawing of the tortoise shells made before the photo was removed from the internet. It might be of your interest concerning pig sacrifices, because Orion and Taurus are drawn as a pig?Your mentioning a three-pronged fork as a Fu clan sign may relate to the exavacations of Jiahu? I don't know but will look it up.
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