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thought you might be interested in this


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Turtle Culture

In Asian religious mythology, the Earth was born by three elephants
which stood on the back of a giant turtle, symbol of the primitive
oceans. The I-Ching or Book of Changes, an ancient Chinese code, was
said to have been inspired by the King Tsang Hieh, when walking along
the banks of the river Loh, and a turtle rose from the water and on its
back were beautiful markings which suggested to the king all the
different combinations of things and so he invented the I-Ching. The
I-Ching is actually identical in structure to the genetic code - a 64
permutation binary system.

Looking at the back of a beautiful Asiatic spiny turtle, we see the
pattern of scutes on the shell, which resembles a brazen sun, with
streaks of light, we count 12 scutes on each margin (the 12 months of
the year) and then four lateral scutes on either flank (the four
seasons) and then five cental scutes (the five elements). Perhaps this
is the origin of the I-Ching creation story.

[tortoiseguy]

very informative, you learn something new every day

[tortsncatsrule]

I'm sure this is what Terry Pratchett based his 'Discworld' books on! Googled some images!


http://images.google.co.uk/images?q=...n&start=0&sa=N

[chris_walton]

linda i was trying to explain to darren before you put this thread up about your avatar what the pic was acutally about

chris

[Ajay]

*sigh* when I tell people that they think I've been drinking and laugh at me

The Discworld books are great, check out Errol

[KearasNana]

Wow that's great Linda, thanks for posting that

bumped for nina