I was initially unsure if I wanted to include Kenan in my Superfamily project, but pretty much everyone who commented on my post asking for help on the line up raved about him. So I picked up some of his comics to get a feel for the character. There are definitely some weird things in his story so far, and his connection to "magic" concerned me at first. But it was really brought to a good head in my opinion with qi and the bagua being part of his Kryptonian powers, not a seperate thing. Also glad they seem to have ditched calling it magic.
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Okay, we're gonna go a little deep today and talk about some fundamental concepts to the Daoist belief system.
How many of you have heard of the 8 trigrams? A few of you, I'd assume. At the very least, those familiar with JttW will remember Laotzu's Brazier of 8 trigrams that famously failed to disintigrate Sun Wukong.
Now, how many actually know what the 8 trigrams are? Quite a bit less, probably. That's what we're learning about today.
This is a traditional representation of the 8 trigrams as created by the god Fu Xi, and the arrangement we're mainly going to focus on. There are other ways to place things, but we won't be looking into those too much thus time.
If you look at the center of the image you'll see a Yin and Yang symbol, or more accurately a Taijitu. Here is a good article going over some specifics, but for now we'll just go with the basics. The white parts are Yang, masculine and active energies. The black parts are Yin, feminine and passive energies. Together they make up the Absolute (Taiji) and are the foundation of the universe. They act on all things, which are represented by the trigrams.
The trigrams are the stacks of 3 lines, either broken or unbroken. Broken lines denote Yin, while unbroken lines denote Yang. Therefore ☰ (sky/heaven) is the most masculine while ☷ (earth) is the most feminine. The other trigrams are ☱ (lake/marsh) and it's opposite ☴ (wind/wood), ☲ (fire/sun) and it's opposite ☵ (water/moon), ☳ (thunder/metal) and it's opposite ☶ (mountain). They are positioned across from their opposite on Fu Xi's Primordial Heaven Bagua (8 trigrams).
When you stack 2 trigrams on top of each other, you get a hexagram, of which there are 64 because trigrams can be stacked on top of themselves. For example ䷀ is two ☰ (sky/heaven) on top of each other, making the hexagram for force.
Things are a bit more complicated when comparing the 8 trigrams to the 5 elements (water, fire, earth, wood, metal), as there is NO way to make those numbers play nice and even so things get a little wonky. Fire and water corrospond to themselves, of course, while earth gets earth AND mountain. Wood gets wind while metal gets sky and thunder.
Honestly it kinda seems like they tried really hard to smush together two concepts that were created independently and were never really intended to interact but both individually became so important to the culture that they kind of HAD to.
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I LOVE today’s MotD…it touches my heart and soul. Here Indonesian photographer Victor Djaja combines the ordinary (bicycle) with the sacred (I Ching Mandala) capturing the full spectrums of yellows, golds, and browns so beautifully, creating a beautiful flow between all the components within the photo.
Victor presents to us a variety of mandalas starting…
