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China amuletes Eight Trigrams Pa Kua koment confucl
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AMULETS
Eight Trigrams
The eight trigrams (Pa Kua) of the Book of Changes (I Ching). This book, one of the Five Classics, consists of a set of sixty-four fi gures known as “trigrams”. The trigram is composed of combinations of pairs of eight trigrams each of which represents some power in nature, either active or passive, such as fi re, water, thunder, earth, etc. These trigrams are said to have been invented 2000 years and more B.C. by the legendary monarch Fu Hsi, who copied them from the back of a tortoise.
Attached to each hexagram are explanatory notes and expository comments. The notes are said to have been written by the Chou King Wen Wang and the comments by Confucius. The notes are made in symbolic language which only mystics could understand, but the comments are written in plain language. These comments have lifted the Book of Changes from a primitive book of divination and oracles to an ethical and philosophical importance. The market value is about $30.00-40.00 in VF condition. Many cash coins have been privately decorated with engraved designs on the rims, in the fi elds, or both, to convert them to amulets.
Weight: 56.48 grams
Diameter: 52.5 mm
Thickness: 3.7 mm