My favourite book is the Book of Changes, the I-Ching.
Perhaps you have heard of it. It is one of the oldest books ever written. It is also unlike any other book on the planet.
http://hubpages.com/hub/The-Mandate-of-Heaven-myth-and-politics-in-the-I-Ching
Further links:
Yi Jing, Book of Sun and Moon
Calling Crane In The Shade
The Great Vessel
I-Ching on the net
2 comments:
Excellent article, thank you. I just linked back to it from my I Ching blog.
You might be interested in the original versions of Stephen Karcher's ideogram pictures and descriptions. They're from LiSe Heyboer's beautiful site, Yijing, Book of Sun and Moon.
best wishes,
Hilary
Karcher also uses the “fields of meaning” method employed by Ritsema and Sabbadini, only where they use it for every word of the text (giving you every possible translation of every word) Karcher saves it for the name of the hexagram, in this case Khien, Qien, or Ch’ien, translated variously as Humbling, Humble or Modesty, which Karcher tells us can mean any one of the following:
You may be interested to know that the original Eranos Foundation sponsored translation of the I Ching was made by Ritsema and Karcher. It is gossiped that when Karcher started publishing on his own, in Element Books, the friendship between the two scholars was bitterly over. You can still find many of those books for very good prices:
http://tinyurl.com/387tmp
It is a nice exercise to compare the two.
Nice blog.
Cheers,
Luis
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