[Ponte Alto] Divination, Yi-Jing, and Forbidden Directions

[Ii Saburou]

This is a bit late, and I can't recall who wanted a copy, so I figure it 
is best to just post the link and let people download it if they are 
interested.

This began life as a handout for an Asian Night gathering.  It has since 
grown into a bit more, and there is still a lot of work on editing and 
research that I have to do, but it will probably stay as it is for the 
time being.

I want to expand just about everything in there.  I really don't talk 
about the He Tu or Lo Shu diagrams as much as I'd like.  I also need to 
make sure that my Chinese is all using pinyin, as some of the sources used 
Wade-Giles and I'm not always sure I used the appropriate romanization (I 
have tried to add the appropriate Chinese characters where appropriate, in 
case my romanization is off).

I also need to find out more about the prohibited directions and their 
links to China.  Unfortunately, our best source is in French, and Ellen 
can tell you that my French is horrible, so I've been using her and Alta 
Vista to try to dig into it more.

Nonetheless, I think that there is a good basic outline of many of the 
concepts I've run across so far including the Yi-Jing, Yin-Yang, the Five 
Elements, and Prohibited Directions.

Esoteric Buddhism, native Shinto beliefs, and other things such as Fu 
talismans are missing and I want to do more research.  However, I'm being 
pushed for a translation elsewhere, first, so I need to put this aside for 
now.

So, enjoy:

http://modzer0.cs.uaf.edu/~logan/pub/Divination.doc

-Ii