Thus we find Jiun Sonja (1718-1804), a Shinto priest, arguing that "The images of the River Chart [Hetu], were manifested through the Okitsu Mirror [a round bronze object kept at the sacred Ise shrine] . . . . [and the authors of the Changes] copied our ancient divination of Takam-ga-hara in formulating its text and style. The whole book is completely borrowed from us [the Japanese]. Hirata Atsutane (1776-1843), for his part, went so far as to assert that the ancient Chinese culture hero Fu Xi, putative inventor of the trigrams, was actually a Shinto deity.[1] [Архівовано 5 Лютого 2016 у Wayback Machine.]
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Thus we find Jiun Sonja (1718-1804), a Shinto priest, arguing that "The images of the River Chart [Hetu], were manifested through the Okitsu Mirror [a round bronze object kept at the sacred Ise shrine] . . . . [and the authors of the Changes] copied our ancient divination of Takam-ga-hara in formulating its text and style. The whole book is completely borrowed from us [the Japanese]. Hirata Atsutane (1776-1843), for his part, went so far as to assert that the ancient Chinese culture hero Fu Xi, putative inventor of the trigrams, was actually a Shinto deity.[1] [Архівовано 5 Лютого 2016 у Wayback Machine.]
