The Secret Doctrine, Volume II. Anthropogenesis

Chapter 121

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Whence the identity of the ideas? The Chinese have the same traditions. According to the commentator Kwoh P’oh, in the work called Shan-Hai-King, “Wonders by Sea and Land,” a work which was written by the historiographer Chung Ku from engravings on nine urns made by the Emperor Yü (b.c. 2255), an interview is mentioned with men having two distinct faces on their heads, before and behind, monsters with bodies of goats and human faces, etc. Gould, in his Mythical Monsters (p. 27), giving the names of some authors on Natural History, mentions Shan-Hai-King. “According to the commentator Kwoh P’oh (a.d. 276-324) this work was compiled three thousand years before his time, or at seven dynasties’ distance. Yang Sun of the Ming Dynasty (commencing a.d. 1368) states that it was compiled by Kung Chia and Chung Ku (?)”—as stated above. “Chung Ku ... at the time of the last emperor of the Hia dynasty (b.c. 1818), fearing that the emperor might destroy the books treating of the ancient time, carried them in his flight to Yin.”

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