Oracle Entities
In the highest abstraction level, an hexagram can be thought itself
as a single entity in its own right; from a middle level, it can be
thought as the combination of two trigrams; from the lowest, it is
a combination of six lines. The six lines comprising the hexagram
are ordered from bottom to top, thus the lower line of the hexagram
is referred as the first line. The following oracle entities are associated
to each hexagram:
- The ``judgement'': It is the main idea that the hexagram encompasses
itself.
- The ``image'': It is the visual representation suggested by the
spatial relationship between the two comprising trigrams.
- The ``mutant lines particular judgement'': It is the main idea
that each mutant line encompasses itself.
- The judgement and the image of its mutant hexagram: The mutant hexagram
is obtained by taking the opposite sense of the mutant lines present
in the former hexagram. Fig.
illustrates the idea: the
left original hexagram is ``Wei Chi / Before Completion'' (No.
64), the right mutant one is ``P'i / Standstill'' (No.
12).
Figure 1.1:
Example
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Jean Pierre Charalambos
2002-04-14