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... Both these ideas would tend to say that the 'Eastern Neighbor' of 63:5 who sacrificed the ox in an elaborate sacrifice, done only by the Zhou, it being their central ritual for communion with heaven, is indeed the Shang speaking of the Zhou.
The Shang kings of Anyang produced more than 160.000 tortoise divinations that was stored in a "library". They must by logic have used a logistic system. Each plastron had five T-cracks in pairs marked I, II, III, IIII, I><I and the logistic system may have been based on these five pairs. A possibility could be, according to the distribution of numbers mentioned in the article of Shang Sheng-lang: If both T-cracks of a pair were auspicious, the pair was named t (7). If both T-cracks were inauspicious, the pair was named I><I (5). If the T-cracks were a both auspicious and inauspiciuos pair, those with the auspicious T-crack to the left were named /\ (6) and those with the auspicious T-crack to the right )( (8). They could not name the pairs I, II, III, IIII, because it would look confusing in a stack of numbers.I think the Duke of Zhou must have taken some writings with him from the Shang court.
Mary:For Charly: In reading this thread I see your suggestions that I edit a bit better (we all get so excited!) Good idea and you have helped me clarify and distill my thinking. I am not afraid of characters, I leave it to the experts while I study mostly academic journals, books, etc. By training, at least as an undergraduate my major was history. I tend to stay pretty current in military history, esp WWII and the Civil War of the US, and British history, all periods and of course, China.
Given your interest in military affairs I can imagine why is yours the H.30 said:30:6 I think would mean not to push the business of war too far. However, I don't emphasize the use of historical line statements. In analyzing the energy pattern of the hexagram, the light is at its height. One could analyze the line as the net of Li illuminating the heavens of the Invisible World and clinging to and revealing the future
Yes, you are right about the Middle Daughter, she is war, (strategy too) and weapons. see the trigram of Li in the Hexagram of Tui in Book III, the Commentaries. WB
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