Mythic headwaters: Fuxi, the River Chart and Luo Writing
Cultural origin narratives, not archaeological dates
Fuxi drawing the trigrams, the dragon-horse bearing the River Chart and the turtle carrying the Luo Writing form the most influential origin stories of Yijing learning. They reveal how later communities imagined sacred origins, but do not date historical inventions. Familiar diagrams must be traced through Han-Song and later texts.
Myth supplies genealogy; modern research separates genealogy from chronology.
- Fuxi
- Hetu-Luoshu
- pre/post-celestial diagrams
