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| | Chinese Philosophy & Religion: EightTrigrams |
 | | Thus we find that these Five Emperors; Fu Hsi (Subduer of Animals), Shen Nung (the Divine Farmer), Huang-Ti (the Yellow Emperor), Shao Hao, and Chuan Hsu, have each been credited with many inventions the I-Ching (as well as inventing hunting, fishing, and trapping) nearly 5,000 years ago. |
 | | It is thought that the patterns that typically reappeared when the shell was heated were given meaning, and this practice eventually led to the formation of the trigrams and hexagrams. |
 | | While tortoise shell divination could very well have led to the formation the trigrams and explain one of the Fu Hsi myths, I tend to believe that the formation of the trigrams and hexagrams came about through an evolutionary numerological process which started with the concept of yin and yang. |
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