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Hexagram 4 has an exceptionally clear, direct Oracle: ...
that gives people their firs sense that Yi has a voice of its own and is talking to them, personally.
The same in Kunst’s thesis, and in Part II of Minford’s lovely book. As Minford explains (with a nice, long quotation), this idea is drawn from a 1933 essay by Arthur Waley. Legge said that tangmeng was ‘dodder’ (the name of the hexagram is meng); the Han dynasty dictionary/ glossary/ encyclopaedia Erya says that meng is equivalent to ‘dodder’. Waley was quite sure that ‘we do not seek the dodder, the dodder seeks us’ is a spell to ward off harm when you damage the plant.
... Geoffrey Redmond sees no need for dodder; nor does Harmen. Nor do I, really… and yet…
First, what actually is dodder, and what might it have meant to people?
The character for the first person pronoun, with the phonetic «e» instead of «wo» belongs to the name of the «Lady in the Moon» Heng-E or Chang-e that get raised to the moon after eating unnoticed the spells for immortality that «Queen Mother of the West» gave to her husband. The immortality that she obtained unwillingly was, upon some point of view, a punishment for her IGNORANCE.
Her early name meant «Constant Beauty», and the later «Everlasting Beauty». Maybe both suitable (1) for a woman that was always young and passed from being a MORTAL with a constant love for her husband, that maybe didn't deserved her (2), to be an IMMORTAL ever young woman, deprived of her former possessions, except her beauty, single, although still married, without any company but her received BUNNY (3).
Chang-E became almost a deity, a female beautiful immortal spirit, close to those called «JADE MAIDEN», That's one of the names received in china by the DODDER according to the sources that inspire Waley.
He does? Where??Redmond, writing with Tze-Ki Hon, discards the dodder. Writing standalone he translates DODDER!
...
(To be continued,
or if you prefer,
Soon more messy thoughts)
Her name became taboo because there was an emperor with that name. You weren't allowed to write the name of the emperor, so you had to replace it with some other related character._______________________
(1) The mainstream on changing names is, as far as I know, that Heng became taboo during the Han dynasty. I believe that maybe Heng adquired an irreverent conotation for an immortal demigoddess due to the almost identical pronunciation of the word Meng: Constant Beauty > Ignorant Beauty?
Come, come, this isn't at all fair to Yi, even if he is a rather ambivalent hero. The ten suns came out at once, and he shot down nine of them, and saved us all from burning to a crisp. Though I seem to remember someone had to stop him from absent-mindedly shooting the tenth one as well.(2) The husband was a violent man know for killing nine innocent sun-birds to whom he was charged to merely scare away. A case of easy arrow shot. He carelessly left the spells without warning his wife, to whom he did not care for too much, always being engaged in fights.
Hi, Hilary:... One of the best kinds of thought...
Hi, Hilary:Charly: Redmond, writing with Tze-Ki Hon, discards the dodder. Writing standalone he translates DODDER!
Hilary: He does? Where??
Etymonline about NEOPHYTE:... Maybe a freudian slip, I have some reserve towards Redmond. I go to analize it.
Maybe because of NEOPHYTE, with its botanical connections with exotic or even invasive plants moved my inconscious to forge a false remember.
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