Re: semiOT: the Monkey Year (wasRe: Religion and Holidays)

In a message dated 2004:01:06 07:36:36 PM, christophe.grandsire@FREE.FR
writes:

>I am myself a Water Dragon (even born on the hour of the Dragon :)) ).
>Funny, considering that according to Western Astrology I'm an Aries, a
>fire sign, with ascendant Taurus, an Earth sign ;))) (but the description of
>Water Dragons I've read strangely fits very well my character :)) ).
    You oughta get yourself _I Ching: The Book of Changes and the Unchanging
Truth_, revised edition, by Hua-Ching Ni. ISBN 0-937064-29-7.
    It not only is the best translationIMO, it has the best, easiest to
understand explanations of the whole schmeer of Chinese traditional cosmology,
which incl.s the zodiac naturally...
    Like I have said numerous times before, the I Ching is the cornerstone,
arc(h) and span&beam of Chinese Culture. (BTW Lydia Ayers, a professor in Hong
Kong, wrote a piece of music titled _Deep Structure of Chinese Culture_. It's
available on-line.)

>funny part is that I discovered that my boyfriend is a Wood Dog, and that
>the Dog and Dragon signs are opposites. This explains why we complement
>each other very well but often have diametrically opposed opinions on many
>issues :))
    Yin & Yang :)

>(although I thought the opposite of the Dragon was the Tiger.
>Am I missing something?).
    Dogs and Tigers are closely related cosmologically. & hehe they both have
their backs to Heaven and run on 4 legs...


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in the yera of 2004 CE, year 4702 of the Huangdi era,
    Year of the Wooden Monkey, _Jia-Shen_...

_Nom de Guerre et Nom de 'Nick'_: Hanuman "Stitch/626" Zhang
AIN Resistance partisan code name: "Z23-4C"
    WOGeR (Wiley Oriental Gentleman/Rogue)
    BBC (BritishBornChinaman)
        Avatar of Sun Wu K'ung, a.k.a. Sun Wukong, a.k.a _Ma-Lau_ ("Monkey
King")
        a.k.a. "TricksterGod of the Glorious Anti-Imperialist Chinese Boxers"
            http://www.uglychinese.org/war.htm
            ¡¡¡  TricksterShapeShifterIncarnate  !!!  >^..^<           ';'
       ;P~~~
    "one o' dem best-est & bright-est a' de bottom o' de barrel"
    <A HREF="http://www.friendster.com/user.jsp">Friendster - zHANgster</A>

=>  om hung hanumatay rudratmakai hung phat  <=
    mantra to Hanuman the Hindu Monkey TricksterGod

==> Ko nahi janat hai jag mein kapi, sankat mochan naam tiharo <==
[Who does not know that in this world oh monkey, thy name is one which
liberates one out of all problems].

"Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist...
Imitation is suicide." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

    "I rather be whole than good." - Carl Jung

I Am A Bird, don't try
to tell my wings where to fly.

<=  thee prIs ov eXistenZ iz aetern'l warfaer 'N' kreativ playf'llnizz...  =>
    "Mea typo, mea typo, mea maxima typo... "

"Life is all a great joke, but only the brave ever get the point."
                                            - Kenneth Rexroth

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