RE: L.O.E.S - 4 - The Power Of A Name

The Thunder people eh? If there were ever an ethnic cultural heritage that represents Thunder, it will have to be the people of the Native Tribes.

It's astounding to see that all cultures have a lineage in Tribalism and Shamanistic roots. It must have been a very lateral way of living and being....no hinderance of written language...ancestors learned from the 10,000 things around them (taking the sayings from Daoist Dao De Jing)...they understood the language of images, symbols, signs, portents and omens....and they retained the spirit of the peoples through various cultural secrets (whether in medicine, weapons arts, divine arts etc etc).

That's where the modern world has gone wrong. The severance of our Universal roots...forget cultural roots...i'm talking Universal. We ought to get Universal.

I would also like to introduce you to the trigram and hexagram of THUNDER (please skip to 15:47)

I really like ZHEN which is hexagram 51. It's next one of my favourite numbers 52...reminds me of a pack of cards minus the jokaz. And that is next to my favourite hexagram #53.

Hexagram 51 is often translated in English by the Confucian influenced tradition of the Yi (Yi means "change" in Chinese, romanized by the Confucian scholars as "I" pronounced "e" as in the letter; "Jing" means "classical works" or "the classics") as THUNDER. But it's original etymology of the Chinese word, which comes from the Bone Oracle symbol pictograph language, means EARTHQUAKE.

In Archiac Chinese the hexagram statement and line texts are very poetic. This is the only hexagram that has the word "thunder" in every line.

Since in the Confucian tradition of the Yi (they call it Yi + Jing or I Ching; Jing/Ching meaning "classic works" aka the TEN WINGS chapters supposedly penned by Confucius) the hexagrams are in terms of momentum, and since you read the hexagrams from base line to the top, each line represents (in the Confucian Tradition of the Yi), this also alludes to momentum building upon each line/momentum.

Hexagram 51 represents the sudden spark of life before creation. Hexagram 1 means Creation, but it is only able create the manifested world if there is a spark. Hexagram 51 is the spark.

The Thunder peoples, representing all our ancestors from all cultures, were gifted with ancient life relics in the form of traditions, heritage, cultural skills/knowledge/lifestyles. The people of Thunder all held a sacred duty, because they were born naturally gifted and connected with the Universe and the Divine...so a lot of the tribal ancestors were great sages, great custodians of this Earth. They are the Spark.

So it gives me solace in this ever increasing world of decay, there will always, without a doubt, be those who shall maintain these old world relics. They will never be snuffed out. They have a duty to pass on the Flame/Spark.