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Midaughter: The Theory, Not the Person

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Even though I personally have drawn much negative attention I will say that is ok but the focus is tangential.

My work has been historical reinterpretation of Tui, Hexagram 58 and Hexagram 63:5 in the light of the discovery of Tomb 5 in 1976, the tomb of the queen during the Shang Dyasty reign of King Wu Ting around 1500 BC.

Two of the most learned scholars that I know of:
KC Chang and Joseph Needham (amazingily light years before anyone else)wrote that there was an hereditary royal clan of woman diviners during the Shang Dynasty.

Before his death, KC Chang sponsored the translation of several works into English concerning the findings of the Fu Tzu /Queen married to King Wu Ting. (Wu Ting spoken of in Hexagram 63). Both the artifacts of her grave and oracle bones found in other graves that concerned here were interpreted. While exceptionally prepared and insightful, none of these scholars from around the world appeared to be learned in the I Ching.

At the conference, several oracle bone findings that discussed the Fu Tzu lineage and the life of the Fu Tzu of King Wu Ting's era were presented. This was the first time the work of many Chinese scholars had been presented to the world.

The Chinese scholars, who had studied her life through over 200 oracle bones even before her grave was found, said that she had indeed been from the fiefdom of Tzu, was a high-ranking noble in her own right and that she had quelled internal dissension, united the country and raised and rode at the head of an army to repel the Qin.

Of course, there conflicting ideas between these eminent scholars and these are presented as well {I also note the basic equanimity of these achieved individuals at this international conference and their life-long passion for the subject matter)

By reading these papers and looking at the symbolism surrounding this queen, one could see that the tiger and the west were inextricably linked with this person.

My own balliwick, if any, would be Wilhelm-Baynes. Seeing the association of the woman in tomb 5 with these symbols I immediately noted that the identical symbols (the West and the White Tiger) are found in Book III the Commentaries (and discussed as a trigram in Hexagram 49 as "Tui stands in the West with the White Tiger). That's basically my idea and that's about it.

I don't think we will ever find more evidence for this association, no Dead Sea Scrolls, no direct evidence, only the I Ching itself. Tomb 5 was unique in that no other tombs of this era have been found that had not been long ago looted.

No grave of any other woman has yielded artifacts of warfare. This also indicated to me that she involved in the wars of the Wu Ting era and probably made the 'simple sacrifice' spoken of in 63:5.

I noted that in WB the text 63:5 says specifically that the authors who are writing it down made it clear they did not know what the Fu character meant. Two diviners were trying to decipher the meaning the hexagram and a character that was written about 1,500 years before.

I took this mean that they did not know that Fu character could have meant that the Fu Tzu (or Fu Hao) had made this sacrifice for the victory over the Huns. (Her official role was "Keeper of the Sacricies")

If you read Hexagram 63:5 you see that alternate explanations are given by the authors becasue they are not sure what the writing signifies.

At the international conference there was lively discussion as to what "Fu" meant. However, many though that 'fu' meant this hereditary clan (a shih) of woman diviners of the Shang dynasty. Others thought maybe there was only one or two Fu Tzu's, one of which was the lady from the Tomb 5 and the other would have been the Fu Tzu of King Tang's reign-he was the first Shang King.

There was also lively debate concerning several motifs found in the grave which showed a sacrifice being made by a woman. None of them could decide what the animal could have been. My interpretation, based on 63:5 was that it could have a pig - the simple sacrice coming from the heart...and 'this is good because god looks into the heart'
 
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hmesker

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And still you base all your assumptions almost only on one book, which contains material that is more then 20 years old. Isn't about time you update your sources? Taking "Book III" of Wilhelm as evidence for something which is way older than that is ridiculous.

Harmen.
 

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