File:Zhou archaic form of Tian.svg
Summary
Archaic form of the character Tiān 天 ("Heaven", "Sky", "God"), of the Zhou dynasty and culture. It represents a human-like being whose head-mind is informed by the astral square of the north celestial pole (Big Dipper, swastika), and derives from the <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shang_archaic_form_of_Di.svg" title="File:Shang archaic form of Di.svg">Shang archaic character for Dì 帝, "Deity"</a>. Further information in John C. Didier's <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://sino-platonic.org/complete/spp192_vol3.pdf">In and Outside the Square: The Sky and the Power of Belief in Ancient China and the World - Volume III: Terrestrial and Celestial Transformations in Zhou and Early-Imperial China, c. 4500 BC – AD 200</a> (Sino-Platonic Papers, n. 192, vol. 3. University of Pennsylvania, 2009).
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| current | 11:47, 6 January 2017 | | 149 × 149 (3 KB) | 127.0.0.1 (talk) | <p>Archaic form of the character <i>Tiān</i> 天 ("Heaven", "Sky", "God"), of the Zhou dynasty and culture. It represents a human-like being whose head-mind is informed by the astral square of the north celestial pole (Big Dipper, <i>swastika</i>), and derives from the <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shang_archaic_form_of_Di.svg" title="File:Shang archaic form of Di.svg">Shang archaic character for <i>Dì</i> 帝, "Deity"</a>. Further information in John C. Didier's <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://sino-platonic.org/complete/spp192_vol3.pdf">In and Outside the Square: The Sky and the Power of Belief in Ancient China and the World - Volume III: Terrestrial and Celestial Transformations in Zhou and Early-Imperial China, c. 4500 BC – AD 200</a></i> (<i>Sino-Platonic Papers</i>, n. 192, vol. 3. University of Pennsylvania, 2009). </p> |
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