The Chinese Trigrams in Micronesia

SOME CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE, said Henry David Thoreau, very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk. That is the theme of this essay. In Micronesia, especially the Caroline Islands, there is an outstanding method of divination called bwe, which makes use of knotted palm leaflets. It is so similar in its methodology and permutations to the ancient Chinese i pu, using the random selection of the so-called diagrams, as to merit attention as one of the few known examples of the movement of specific cultural traits from China into the South Seas

Archaeology · Art · Circumstantial evidence · Divination · Genealogy · Literature · Selection (genetic algorithm) · Theme (computing) · Trigram · Artificial Intelligence · Chinese history and philosophy · Computer Science · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Japanese History and Culture