{"product_id":"xia-i-a-divinatory-reconstruction-of-the-first-i-ching-9798507593651","title":"Xia I: A Divinatory Reconstruction of the First I Ching","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): William Douglas Horden\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: I Ching\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAccording to the court historians of the Chou Dynasty, two sequences of the I Ching hexagrams preceded that of the so-called King Wen version we know today. Whereas that hexagram sequence of the received version of that \u003ci\u003eChou I\u003c\/i\u003e begins with the hexagram Heaven over Heaven, the court historians of the time report that the sequence attributed to the earlier Shang Dynasty began with the hexagram Earth over Earth, and that of the even earlier Xia Dynasty began with the hexagram Mountain over Mountain.\u003cbr\u003e-\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat this book is not: \u003c\/b\u003e It is pointedly \u003cb\u003enot\u003c\/b\u003e a scholarly text or academic rendition of an actual text of antiquity. It does \u003cb\u003enot\u003c\/b\u003e present an authentic rendering of any such relic-\u003ci\u003ethere is no physical text from that time period\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e-\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat this book is: \u003c\/b\u003e It is a \u003ci\u003edivination\u003c\/i\u003e. An extended divination, to be specific. Based on my fifty year relationship with the Oracle and its symbols, this is my \u003ci\u003ereading\u003c\/i\u003e of the hypothetical reconstructed hexagram sequence hinted at by the Chou court historians.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47889078059159,"sku":"9798507593651","price":1127.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798507593651.webp?v=1781174073","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/xia-i-a-divinatory-reconstruction-of-the-first-i-ching-9798507593651","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}