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.
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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
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
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