Divination with Knotted Rope?

[freemanc]

I have been wearing one of my other hats, and have been looking for math puzzles. The I Ching must have felt like playing with puzzles too, and put a piece about the Lo Shu River diagram in my path.

Now I've seen the diagram with little circles and lines countless times, as in

this,

but I learn that these are knotted pieces of rope! Or anyway, my source claims that.

Anyone know about divination with knotted pieces of rope?

FC

 

[peter]

With a knotted rope? It's not a divination, as far as I know; it is a method to "dig your unconscious". You ask a question and then close your eyes and "walk" with your fingers by the rope. When you meet a know, an image flashes in your mind. Then another. Usually 9 knots are used. Remembering all images come, you can see, which one is the most "shallow", and which is most "deep".

 

[peter]

Ouch, "when you meet a knot", I wanted to write.

 

[bradford_h]

a rope with this knot is considered to be an especially bad omen

 

[yly2pg1]

Could be it a kind of divination to do with the Solar System?

 

[yly2pg1]