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Ideograms of Estrangement

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Chris Gabriel
Jul 26, 2026
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This week I put out my translation and commentary on hexagram 38. These are some of the significant ideograms in the text.

惡

Evil is inferior+heart. A bad heart. " McCarthy puts it well in Blood Meridian: “There’s a flawed place in the fabric of your heart. Do you think I could not know?”

主

Master, across three different historical forms, depicts Fire. A lamp in one,

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