nestorD
4 hours ago
Fun fact: archaeological evidence on I Ching divinatory records shows an hexagram distribution different from the one produced by the yarrow stalk method. Meaning that, while it is now considered the traditional method, it was likely not the original approach.
z2
3 hours ago
Naive question: could this have been survivorship bias? Could certain ones not have been written down or kept with the others?
nestorD
24 minutes ago
I doubt it. The I Ching does not really have bad / low interest hexagrams. Also historians who studied the topic seem pretty sure that the yarrow stalk method is a recent introduction (by I Ching standards, we are talking about a bronze age divination tool...).