Lucia Ottavia Antares

Odysseus's Journey and the Sphere of Changes - Sailing along a possible structure shared by the Odyssey, Chinese myth, and the Book of Changes

It is shown how the numbers cited by Homer in relation to Odysseus’s voyage find formal correspondences in the Sphere of Changes that emerges from the I Ching.

Odysseus's Journey and the Sphere of Changes - Sailing along a possible structure shared by the Odyssey, Chinese myth, and the Book of Changes

It is shown how the numbers cited by Homer in relation to Odysseus’s voyage find formal correspondences in the Sphere of Changes that emerges from the I Ching.

Pangu's Cosmic Axe and its earthly counterpart

The paper suggests that a bronze axe from the Xia dynasty, preserved at the Shanghai Museum, may represent the mythological axe with which Pangu breaks the cosmic egg to create Heaven and Earth.