Keywords: Carus-p48-Mystic-table.jpg en The Mystic Tablet According to Carus' explanation it contains on the shield of a tortoise alluding to the animal that has revealed the Eight Trigrams to Fu Xi and which was in more canonical accounts a dragon horse a chart with the 8 Trigrams the 12 figures of Chinese animal cycle etc The centerpiece is another smaller tortoise the one that revealed the Luoshu magic square to Yu the Great A Tibetan work reproduced first in Waddell The Buddhism of Tibet p 453 and then in Carus Chinese thought p 48 An unknown Tibetan artist original work prior to 1895 Page scan from Carus http //www archive org/stream/chinesethoughtex00carurich page/48/mode/1up Dragon horse Chinese Zodiac Luoshu Ba Gua Turtles in Chinese art PD-old |