Fu Hsi, shown looking at a turtle is  the mythical discoverer of the I Ching hexagrams.  It is said that he found the hexagrams on a tortoise's back.  The I Ching has its roots in the Yellow River Neolithic Cultures and is approximately 6000 years old.

Astronomy map, Neolithic, dragon ascending left; tiger going downwards right. North Star in the middle.


The Lung-shan peoples were located to the east of the Xia and were closer to the coastal areas are believed to be the first culture to have diviner clans.








Pan-po, Neolithic fish




Ancient sign for "the clinging" the mystical fire that clings to the invisible world, the sign of hexagram 30



Neolithic Pitcher, Praying Mantis motif




In Neolithic times,  the pig was often sacrificed in offerings to the ancestors.











The sacred turtle, the stars, the moon, the Universe, and everything in the Neolith. Can you find the 13 moons in a year?, the seven stars of the Big Dipper?, the North Star?