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Erhm, yes, it does, although I personally doubt there is a 'code', just like you.dobro said:Which kinda assumes, Harmen, that there *is* a code.
It indeed looks that way, there are a few interesting features in the text that support this view. It also means that you, if you want to find the rule behind the sequence, you could focus on the odd hexagrams 1, 3, 5 etc. But I doubt that you will find that rule. I received the book by Gennadij Fomyuk and Elena Kudina (http://gennadij-fomyuk.narod.ru/Book/book_engl.zip) who claim that they have cracked the code, but I find there material far too complex and totally incomprehensible. I'm not convinced.But the *pairs* of hexagrams are really significant, I think. I think the meaning of each of the pairs is intimately related to the other.
Indeed, indeed. It the moment I am reading the fascinating book Landscape and Power in Early China - The Crisis and Fall of the Western Zhou 1045-771BC by Li Feng, an archaeologist who uses bronze inscriptions and locations of findings to reconstruct the fall of the Western Zhou dynasty. The picture he gives is this: soon after the fall of the Shang, the Western Zhou dynasty became weak, bad organized and had to deal with a lot of resistance from the regional states. Because the capitals were in the Wei River valley in the West, and the main regional states were located far in the East, the Zhou hardly had ways to control these regions, regions which became quickly independend. That in turn deminished the power of the Zhou dynasty, and it didn't take too long for the dynasty to collapse. That's not all of course, but that's how far I am in the book .lindsay said:Umm, that is, if there ever was a Great Zhou Conquest ... in fact, recent archeological work has much diminished both Shang and Zhou in size and importance from their legendary status.
Of course! Why didn't I see it? The Soup of King Wen!Years of intense study have convinced me the King Wen sequence is in reality a Bronze Age grocery list. Watch for my new book - "A Gourmet's Guide to the Zhouyi" - where I explore all the yummy recipes hidden in the text and gua.
peter said:bradford,
Sorry for quibbling, but how do you understand "half-orderly and half-randomized"? What order do you see here, and which hexagrams do not fit in it?.
peter said:I remember some numbers "7 plus-minus 2": it is proved by scientists that a man can hold only so many objects in attention at one time. At least 5, but no more than 9. I suppose it was found later than McCulloch's number 6.
lindsay said:The really odd thing for me is why 6 lines? Why not 4 or 5 or 8? There's no binary magic in the number six. Leibniz wouldn't even put it on a T-shirt.
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