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folklore stories of yin and yang
Category: Health Asked by: michal1-ga List Price: $5.00 |
Posted:
31 Mar 2003 14:02 PST
Expires: 30 Apr 2003 15:02 PDT Question ID: 183829 |
hi, i have already asked that question, but i didn't get any answer. 1. i'm looking for folklore stories of yin and yang in chinese medicine. i need this answer in the next 3 hours... thank you michal |
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Re: folklore stories of yin and yang
From: lisss-ga on 19 Apr 2003 06:44 PDT |
Hi. I don't know how to answer a question, but I have searched anyway and here is what I managed to come up with: I have read through over 30 of the most common folklore stories and the only one that directly refers to yin and yang is "YU-HUANG-SHANG-T": "Father Heaven." The August Supreme Emperor of Jade, whose court is in the highest level of heaven, originally a sky god. The Jade Emperor made men, fashioning them from clay. His heavenly court resembles the earthly court in all ways, having an army, a bureaucracy, a royal family and parasitical courtiers. The Jade Emperor's rule is orderly and without caprice. The seasons come and go as they should, yin is balanced with yang, good is rewarded and evil is punished. As time went on, the Jade Emperor became more and more remote to men, and it became customary to approach him through his doorkeeper, the Transcendental Dignitary. The Jade Emperor sees and hears everything; even the softest whisper is as loud as thunder to the Jade Emperor. Source: http://www.demoway.com/chinamask/mythology024.htm You might like to consider how the principles of yin and yang are manifested in folklore. If would love to research this for you, however first I must become an 'answerer'! =) Cheers , Lisa |
Subject:
Re: folklore stories of yin and yang
From: lisss-ga on 19 Apr 2003 06:53 PDT |
Yin and Yang also play a huge role in the myths on creation. "In some creation myths, in a sense both the World Parents are present in the egg as a single, androgynous being. For example, in a Chinese myth, inside the Cosmic Egg are Yin and Yang, i.e. sexuality as an abstract principle. In other Cosmic Eggs there are a pair of twins who may work together OR be opposed to each other. The twins may be male and female. In such instances the connection between the Cosmic Egg and the womb is obvious. Basic to the Chinese conception of the universe is its division into two complementary essences, Yin (shaded) and Yang (sunlit) which together comprise the whole.Yin is female, dark, earthy, passive, submissive, cool. Yang is male, bright, celestial, active, aggressive, warm. Just as male and female unite among humans, the sun god representing Yang marries the moon goddess representing Yin. Heaven and earth thus represent complementary aspects of the whole." Source: http://www.usd.edu/~jsebesta/japan.html You might consider reading about The Infinate and Supreme Ultimate for that is what the mixture of Yin and Yang is: http://www.eng.taoism.org.hk/daoist-beliefs/yin-yang&supreme-ultimate/pg2-3-2.asp - 2 articles loacted here. Or Yin-Yang and the Five Agents: http://www.eng.taoism.org.hk/daoist-beliefs/yin-yang&supreme-ultimate/pg2-3-3.asp - another 2 simple articles. Perhaps I am totally off track and am not helping, but I like to think that I am. I'm not being paid anyway :P - Lisa |
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