Translation based on the oldest known characters.
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Choose a hexagram according to the trigrams
upper lower
	01	09	14	43	26	05	34	11
	44	57	50	28	18	48	32	46
	13	37	30	49	22	63	55	36
	10	61	38	58	41	60	54	19
	33	53	56	31	52	39	62	15
	06	59	64	47	04	29	40	07
	25	42	21	17	27	03	51	24
	12	20	35	45	23	08	16	02

"Nature is written in symbols and signs"
John Greenleaf Whittier

Choose a hexagram-number
01	11	21	31	41	51	61
02	12	22	32	42	52	62
03	13	23	33	43	53	63
04	14	24	34	44	54	64
05	15	25	35	45	55
06	16	26	36	46	56
07	17	27	37	47	57
08	18	28	38	48	58
09	19	29	39	49	59
10	20	30	40	50	60

"In nature's infinite book of secrecy, a little I can read"
William Shakespeare

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The story of each hexagram

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The origin of the hexagrams:
From sundial GUI to
hexagram GUA

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The meaning of the name of this book
YiJing, book of Yi (or I)

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Yi-mages
The names of the hexagrams and their images

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Yi-mages
Hexagrammen uitgebeeld door Marjan Pennings

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The structure of a hexagram
  and the problem of multiple moving lines

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Yao Ying, mirrors and reflections:
moving lines and their relations

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Omen-terms
etymology and meaning of characters

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Trigrams
the characters of their names with their meanings

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De Yijing (I Ching, I Tjing) in Holland

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Hexagram families

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The Bagua pattern
for the hexagram lay-out
and a Bagua-reading

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My bookshelf
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Harmen's pages (not yet complete)

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About me and stuff which interests me
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Old oracles

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