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. . . let's make our discussion more specific. In my opinion, "Oedipus the King" (the most important myth for European civilazation according by Zigmund Freid) corresponds to Hex. 10. Are you agree with this choice?
>> People, therefore, are always going to be able to see relevance in ANY system of correspondences, and they will also be able to learn new things from the new angles and points of view it provides. But it is another thing entirely to develop a system of real correspondences, which isn't accomplished by juxtaposing essentially meaningless sequences such as the King Wen arrangement and the sequence of the Hebrew alphabet.
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First, I must say that I strongly disagree with that King Wen sequences is meaningless. If one accept I Ching as a source of ancient wisdom one should accept this wisdom as a whole, i.e. accept not only texts but also the order of the hexagrams. Second, sometimes juxtaposing is enough, sometimes not. In this case it works and you can see that the order is not so obvious. But let's make our discussion more specific. In my opinion, "Oedipus the King" (the most important myth for European civilazation according by Zigmund Freid) corresponds to Hex. 10. Are you agree with this choice?
As to the Wen Wang or Hou Tian arrangement, believe what you like. At bottom it's just 32 structurally meaningful pairs jumbled into a random sequence.
Before you get too excited about the received sequence, it is a Han construct, based, for the most part, on another work, the Yilin.
>>Major Arcana numer 13 mean "change", reversal it mean stagnation-hex 12
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A another name fo H10 is "pestilence". You can track this motiff in MA 13
>>reversal it mean stagnation-hex 12
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Well, then we have 78*2=156 meanings of the cards but only 64 hexagrams...
"The first appearance of the Yijing gua order is not in an edition of the classic but in a text called the Yilin . . ." What does "appearance" mean here? Did the hexagrams flit about like a flock of birds until they were captured and put in a row by the Han? "Appearance" means something like 'first authenticated use." It is not evidence that the hexagrams had no such sequence prior to the Han.
Sorry, but argumentations doesn't become more solid after repetition. I can't add anything to what I said before: KWS order is the part of I Ching, you can't reject KWS without rejecting I Ching. If you trust the wisdom of I Ching creators it would be very consitent to accept not only the texts but the the order of hexagrams also.
H39 is more or less plain, it's fighting with the obstacle, this motiff can be referred to Oedipus's duel with sphinx, but H10 fits it much better.
Alas we have the Yilin but not an actual version of the Yijing contemporary with it. Thus far, there ISN'T ANY extant/documented evidence of its existence prior to the Yilin.
the Dao De Jing was inspired by the Yi Jing and follows the KWS.
No it wasn't. No it doesn't. But your pareidolia is fully functional.
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