Narrative and mythic classifications

note: there is some overlap between this and personality categorizations, which are in the psychological chapter; generally speaking if a personality categorization can also be interpreted as a social or narrative role, we put it here.

note: for specific religious, mythical, or fictional lists of gods, etc, see catChGods

tarot

BigFivePersonality? thingee

Sephiroth

Leary 8-circuit model and 24 stage model

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight-circuit_model_of_consciousness

"the innovator and leader, the performer and the idealist, the thief, the lover, the trickster, the saint, and the warrior" -- http://www.orionsarm.com/eg-topic/45bcf4aa4ba76

not sure how accurate the following is, searching for keywords from the below only seems to give you hits from web pages promiting Feng Shui:

"Feng Shui is one of the Five Arts of Chinese Metaphysics, classified as Physiognomy (observation of appearances through formulas and calculations)." -- [1]

" The Chinese divide Chinese Metaphysics into five main subjects of study call Wu Shu (五 术) or the Five Arts. They are Mountain 山, Medicine 医, Life 命, Divination 扑 and Appearance 相.

The first of the Five Arts are Mountain (Shan). It is also called the Philosophical art as it includes the thoughts and teachings of well known ancient Chinese philosophers on the study of man and nature. Other study that fall under this art includes diet, physical health, martial arts, meditation and self-healing. Examples include Qi Gong and Tai Chi Chuan.

The Second art is Medicine (Yi) which deals with healing. It includes all form of traditional Chinese medicine including acupuncture and medical prescriptions.

The third is Divination (Pu) or Prediction and the Yi Qing feature prominently in this study. Popular study in this art includes Tai Yi, Da Liu Re, Qi Men and Dua Yi. They rely on numerical analysis to reveal one’s part and future.

The fourth is Destiny Analysis (Ming) or fate. It includes horoscope studies, Ba Zi (Four Pillars or Eight Characters) and Zi Wei Dou Shu Purple Star Astrology).

The fifth and last study is Appearance/physiognomy (Xiang) which refers to the study of forms. It includes between others, Yin (burial) and Yang Feng Shui (form of the living environment), Palmistry (form of the hand) and Face Reading (form of the face) and Naming. " -- http://a-sip-of-tea.blogspot.com/2012/05/five-arts-of-chinese-metaphysics.html

" Chinese Metaphysics (中华玄学) are divided into 5 subjects of studies, call Wu Shu (五 术) or the Five Arts. They are:

1) Mountain 山 (Also known as The Alchemy of Immortals (仙) 2) Medicine 医 3) Life 命 4) Appearance 相 5) Divination 扑

1) Mountain (山 - Shan) / The Alchemy of Immortals （仙） It is known as "Mountain (山 - Shan)" - meaning Knowledge and Skills are learned and trained in the Mountains, because in ancient time, a person need to go up to the mountain to receive such knowledge. Studies that fall under this art includes diet, physical health, martial arts, meditation and self-healing. Taoist Sorcery, Taoist Rituals and Taoist Talismans belongs to Mountain (山) / The Alchemy of Immortals （仙）.

Important!: Many people (Chinese folks included) thought "Mountain (山 - Shan)" of Chinese Metaphysics (中华玄学) means the "The Study of shape and formations of Mountains" and then mistook Feng Shui (风水) belongs to "Study Of Mountain (山 - Shan)", which is wrong. "Mountain (山 - Shan)" of Chinese Metaphysics (中华玄学) means "Knowledge and Skills are learned and trained in the Mountains (in ancient China)". Feng Shui (风水) belongs to the Study of Appearance/Physiognomy (相 - Xiang).

2) Medicine (医 - Yi) Art Of Healing. It includes all form of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), including acupuncture (鍼灸) , Medical Prescriptions (方剂) and Soul Healing(灵治).

3） Life （命 - Ming） The Chinese Art of Destiny Analysis (命) or fate. It includes Four Pillars and Eight Characters (子平八字 - Zi Ping Ba Zi ) and Purple Star Astrology (紫微斗数 - Zi Wei Dou Shu).

4) Appearance （相 - Xiang） The Chinese Study of Appearance/Physiognomy (相) which refers to the study of forms, meaning the study of good or bad of a form. The 2 well-known examples are Palmistry (Lines on the Palm of Hands) and Face Reading / Mole Reading. Feng Shui belongs to the study of Forms (相 - Xiang) , including Feng Shi for Burial (阴宅 - Yin Zhai) and Feng Shui for the living environment (阳宅 - Yang Zhai). The study of Characters of Chinese Names of a person is also belong to The Chinese Study of Appearance （相 - Xiang）.

5) Divination (扑 - Pu) Prediction and the Yi Jing (易经 - I Ching) feature prominently in this study. Popular study in this art includes Tai Yi （太易）, Da Liu Ren (大六壬), Qi Men Dun Jia(奇门盾甲). They rely on numerical analysis to reveal one’s path and future. " -- http://taoist-sorcery.blogspot.com/2014/01/5-arts-of-chinese-metaphysics-wu-shu.html

" In order to understand WHAT really Feng Shui is, one needs to refer to the old manuscripts. The Chinese have five categories of study in the world of Chinese Metaphysics - (known as the Chinese Five Arts - Wu Shu), Feng Shui is classified under physiognomy of the living environment. The Five Arts are Mountain, Medical, Divination, Destiny and Physiognomy. Physiognomy refers to observation of appearances through formulas and calculations in order to assess the potential and outcome of a person, or in this case, the out come of a person living in a certain property. " --- http://www.masteryacademy.com/resources/prVersion.asp?id=6

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagua

" There are two possible sources of bagua. The first is from traditional Yin and Yang philosophy. The interrelationships of this philosophy has been attributed to Fuxi in the following way:

    無極生有極、有極是太極、
    太極生兩儀、即陰陽;
    兩儀生四象: 即少陰、太陰、少陽、太陽、
    四象演八卦、八八六十四卦
    The Limitless (Wuji) produces the delimited, and this is the Absolute (Taiji)
    The Taiji produces two forms, named yin and yang
    The two forms produce four phenomena, named lesser yin, great yin (taiyin also means the Moon), lesser yang, great yang (taiyang also means the Sun).
    The four phenomena act on the eight trigrams (bagua), eight eights are sixty-four hexagrams.

Another philosophical description of the source is the following, attributed to King Wen of Zhou Dynasty: "When the world began, there was heaven and earth. Heaven mated with the earth and gave birth to everything in the world. Heaven is Qian-gua, and the Earth is Kun-gua. The remaining six gua are their sons and daughters".

The trigrams are related to the five elements of wu xing, used by feng shui practitioners and in Traditional Chinese Medicine. Those five elements are wood, fire, earth, metal, and water. The Water (Kan) and Fire (Li) trigrams correspond directly with the Water and Fire elements. The element of Earth corresponds with both the trigrams of Earth (Kun) and Mountain (Gen). The element of Wood corresponds with the trigrams of Wind (Xun) (as a gentle but inexorable force that can erode and penetrate stone) and Thunder (Zhen). The element of Metal corresponds with the trigrams of Heaven (Qian) and Lake (Dui).

There are eight possible trigrams (八卦 bāguà):

"Trigram Figure Binary Value Name Translation: Wilhelm[5] Image in Nature (pp.l-li) Direction (p. 269) Family Relationship (p. 274) Body Part (p. 274) Attribute (p. 273) Stage/ State (pp.l-li) Animal (p. 273) 1 ☰ 111 乾 qián the Creative, Force heaven, sky 天 northwest father head strong creative 馬 horse 2 ☱ 110 兌 duì the Joyous, Open lake 澤 west third daughter mouth pleasure tranquil (complete devotion) 羊 sheep, goat 3 ☲ 101 離 lí the Clinging, Radiance fire 火 south second daughter eye light-giving, dependence clinging, clarity, adaptable 雉 pheasant 4 ☳ 100 震 zhèn the Arousing, Shake thunder 雷 east first son foot inciting movement initiative 龍 dragon 5 ☴ 011 巽 xùn the Gentle, Ground wind 風 southeast first daughter thigh penetrating gentle entrance 雞 fowl 6 ☵ 010 坎 kǎn the Abysmal, Gorge water 水 north second son ear dangerous in-motion 豕 pig 7 ☶ 001 艮 gèn Keeping Still, Bound mountain 山 northeast third son hand resting, stand-still completion 狗 wolf, dog 8 ☷ 000 坤 kūn the Receptive, Field earth 地 southwest mother belly devoted, yielding receptive 牛 cow

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卦名 Name 自然 Nature 季节 Season 性情 Personality 家族 Family 方位 Direction 意義 Meaning 乾 Qián 天 Sky (Heaven) Summer Creative 父 Father 南 South Expansive energy, the sky. For further information, see tiān. 巽 Xùn 風 Wind Summer Gentle 長女 Eldest Daughter 西南 Southwest Gentle penetration, flexibility. 坎 Kǎn 水 Water Autumn Abysmal 中男 Middle Son 西 West Danger, rapid rivers, the abyss, the moon. 艮 Gèn 山 Mountain Autumn Still 少男 Youngest Son 西北 Northwest Stillness, immovability. 坤 Kūn 地 Earth Winter Receptive 母 Mother 北 North Receptive energy, that which yields. For further information, see dì. 震 Zhèn 雷 Thunder Winter Arousing 長男 Eldest Son 東北 Northeast Excitation, revolution, division. 離 Lí 火 Fire Spring Clinging 中女 Middle Daughter 東 East Rapid movement, radiance, the sun. 兌 Duì 澤 Lake Spring Joyous 少女 Youngest Daughter 東南 Southeast Joy, satisfaction, stagnation.

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http://viznut.fi/texts-en/ancient_binary_symbolism.html

i had some trouble saving this in the Wayback Machine. But i archived a copy of it locally.

e gives a concordance of various divination systems by mapping them to strings of 4-bits, and then e gives a synthesis of the 16 4-bit categories.

in case i somehow lose my locally archived copy, as a summary of eis work, here are the 16 strings:

The Symmetries: 0000 (0) 1111 (15) 0110 (6) 1001 (9)

The Contrasts: 0011 (3) 1100 (12) 0101 (5) 1010 (10)

The Directions: 0001 (1) 1000 (8) 1110 (14) 0111 (7)

The Societies: 0010 (2) 0100 (4) 1101 (13) 1011 (11)

0 15 6 9

3 12 5 10

1 14 7 8

2 13 4 11:

home road meet jail

poor rich gone done

up in out down

war peace law crime

" In addition to visual associations, the traditional systems have also formed semantics by opposition: if the array 1111 means "journey", "change" and "death", its inversion 0000 may obtain the opposite meanings: "staying at home", "stability" and "life". The visual associations of 0000 itself no longer matter as much.

The two operations used for creating symmetry groups are inversion and mirroring. These can be found in all families of binary divination: symmetric arrays are always paired with their inversions (e.g. 0000 with 1111), and asymmetric arrays with their reversions (e.g. 0111 with 1110).

Because of the profound role of symmetry groups, I haven't represented the arrays in a numerical order but in a 4x4 arrangement that emphasizes the mutual relationships via inversion and mirroring. Each of the rows in the "binary tarot" picture represents a group with similar properties:

    The top row contains the four symmetrical arrays (which remain the same when mirrored).
    The second row contains the arrays for which mirroring and inversion are equivalent.
    The two bottom rows represent the two groups whose members can be derived from each other solely by mirroring and inversion. 

The semantics within each group are interrelated. For example, the third row ("up", "in", "out", "down") can be labelled "the directions". In order to emphasize this, I have chosen a pair of dichotomies for each row. For example, the row of the directions uses the dichotomies "far-near" and "horizontal-vertical", and the array called "up" combines the poles "far"+"vertical". All the dichotomies can be found in my summary table.

The arrays in the top two groups have an even parity while those on the bottom two groups have an odd parity. This difference is important at least in Al-Raml and related systems, where the array getting the role of a "judge" in a divination table must have an even parity; otherwise there is an error in the calculation. "

note: the following list is in a different order in the bottom two rows (directions and societies), i don't know why. Visually it was from a table of the form:

0 15 6 9

3 12 5 10

1 8 14 7

2 4 13 11

0000 0: home

Visual interpretations: group of people/things, maximum number of things

Unified semantics:HOME: stay at home, family (-> people), no change (-> permanence, stability, longevity), enough wealth (-> satisfaction, yin), receiving guests.

4-way: grouping + stability

1111 15: road

Visual interpretations: road, path, single, half

Unified semantics: ROAD: travel (-> messenger), change, exploration (-> new, expanding, yang), being a stranger (-> incompleteness, solitude, sibling).

4-way: separation + movement

0110 6: meet

Visual interpretations: crossroads, joining of two figures

Unified semantics: MEET: encounter (-> trade, business, external relations, problems with strangers), join (-> alliance, copulation, children).

4-way: grouping + movement

1001 9: jail

Visual interpretations: enclosure, prison cell, link in chain

Unified semantics: JAIL: reclusion (-> privacy, secrecy, introspection; -> avoidance, self-restriction, postponing), protection (-> security), chain (-> heritage, unchangeable essence).

4-way: separation + stability

my note: i might rename 'jail' to 'alone', although 'road' is also 'separation' so maybe this isn't the best.

0011 3: poor

Visual interpretations: beam of lights from the sun, emptied container

Unified semantics: POOR: poverty (-> hunger, desire), temporary help from outside (-> debt, gift), lost greatness (-> modesty, obstruction).

4-way: lack + passivity

1100 12: rich

Visual interpretations: blessings growing from earth, full container, knife

Unified semantics: RICH: wealth (-> power, success), long-term independent success (-> stability, rich family), gained greatness (-> victory, difficult beginning), knife (-> right hand, blood, lineage, death).

4-way: satisfaction + activity

0101 5: gone

Visual interpretations: incoming arrow, two emptied bowls

Unified semantics: GONE: arrow (-> danger, risk, destiny; -> poison, medicine, illness), loss (-> something outside grasp, leaving for dangerous journey, sacrifice).

4-way: lack + activity

1010 10: done

Visual interpretations: outgoing arrow, two bowls

Unified semantics: DONE: avoided arrow (-> safety after risk), gain (-> money, something within grasp, new friends/enemies).

4-way: satisfaction + passivity

0001 1: up

Visual interpretations: arch, fountain, rainbow, mountain

Unified semantics: UP: high thing (-> mountain, high building, immovability, stability), high status (-> king, government, god, keeping up), high mood/state (-> joy, happiness, good luck, prosperity), going up (-> rising, appearing, future; -> seeing far, wisdom).

4-way: away + vertical

1000 8: down

Visual interpretations: broken arch, stake being driven into ground, thunder cloud, tornado

Unified semantics: DOWN: opposition (-> evil, struggle, revolution), low mood/state (-> sorrow, suffering, accident, bad luck), going down (-> disappearance, destruction, past), low things (-> earth, foundation)

4-way: near + vertical

1110 14: in

Visual interpretations: new moon's crescent

Unified semantics: IN: appearance (-> beginning), internal (-> internal problems, internal authorities, self-sufficiency), inner circle (-> secrets, relatives)

4-way: near + horizontal

0111 7: out

Visual interpretations: old moon's crescent

Unified semantics: OUT: going out/away (-> disappearance, retreat, end), external (-> outsider, outside influence, sudden unexpected change)

4-way: away + horizontal

0010 2: war

Visual interpretations: clashing swords, turned glass

Unified semantics: WAR: violence (-> death, blood, red), campaign (-> march, booty, managing to escape), aggressive feelings (-> anger, passion, feelings overcoming wisdom, settle disputes by force).

4-way: rough + unfair

0100 4: law

Visual interpretations: glass, scales of justice

Unified semantics: LAW: wisdom (-> intelligence, knowledge, careful planning, wisdom overcoming aggressive feelings), superficial harmony (-> purity, white), justice (-> punishment, captured criminals, legal trouble).

4-way: rough + fair

(note: i might call this something like tarot's suit of 'air', to oppose my redefinition of 'crime', below, as tarot suit of 'staves'; or maybe 'order')

1101 13: peace

Visual interpretations: vulva, woman with exaggerated breasts, execution cross, mouth

Unified semantics: PEACE: harmony (-> innocence, passivity, beauty), unity of people (-> fellowship, consensus, shared wealth), peaceful talk (-> settle disputes by talking, truth, talk, storytelling).

4-way: gentle + unfair

1011 11: crime

Visual interpretations: sword, erect phallus, scarce beard, fish, drop of water

Unified semantics: CRIME: rebellion (-> robbers, misfortune, illness), young men (-> workers, passion, aggression) water (-> rain, river, fish, harvest, accumulating)

4-way: gentle + fair

(note: i might call this something like 'adventure' rather than 'crime', or tarot's suit 'staves' although 'meet' is also 'staves'; or maybe 'chaos')

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