Laird Scranton

China's Cosmological Prehistory

The Sophisticated Science Encoded in Civilization's Earliest Symbols

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Produktbeschreibung

An examination of the earliest creation traditions and symbols of China and their similarities to those of other ancient cultures

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Inner Traditions/Bear & Company
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. August 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 153mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 322g
• ISBN-13: 9781620553299
• ISBN-10: 1620553295
• Artikelnr.: 40452107

Autorenporträt

Laird Scranton is an independent software designer who became interested in Dogon mythology and symbolism in the early 1990s. He has studied ancient myth, language, and cosmology since 1997 and has been a lecturer at Colgate University. He also appears in John Anthony West’s Magical Egypt DVD series. He lives in Albany, New York.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Contours of a Shared Creation Tradition
2 Early Chinese Concepts of Cosmology
3 Ancestor-Teachers in the Chinese Cosmology
4 The Chinese Concept of the Mulberry Tree
5 The Well-Field System
6 The Earliest Chinese Cities
7 Daoism and the Seven Stages of Creation
8 The Mandala
9 The Yijing (I Ching)
10 The Eight Trigrams
11 The Zodiac
12 The Cosmological Role of the Turtle
13 Oracle Bone Writing
14 Symbolism of the Ger, or Yurt
15 The Magic Square and the Numbers Eight and Nine
16 Reconciling China with the Plan of Ancient Cosmology
Notes
Bibliography
Index