'Throughout the earth men spoke the same language, with the same vocabulary. Now as they moved eastward they found a plain in the land of Shinar where they settled. They said to one another, "Come, let us make bricks and bake them in the fire." -For stone they used brick, and for mortar they used bitumen.- "Come," they said, "let us build ourselves a town and a tower with its top reaching heaven. Let us make a name for ourselves, so that we may not be scattered about the whole earth."   Now Yahweh came down to see the town and the tower that the sons of man had built. "So they are all a single people with a single language!" said Yahweh. "This is but the start of their undertakings! There will be nothing too hard for them to do. Come, let us go down and confuse their language on the spot so that they can no longer understand one another." Yahweh scattered them thence over the whole face of the earth, and they stopped building the town. It was named Babel therefore, because there Yahweh confused the language of the whole earth. It was from there that Yahweh scattered them over the whole face of the earth.' Genesis 11: 1-9   'Throughout the earth, men spoke the same language...' As we seek to unravel the enigma of the mystery of the Dragon, we are indeed finding clues pointing towards a linguistic trail, with a common symbolism which existed around the entire world. The Five Sacred Mountains of China marking the North, South, East, West and Center of China    Last November and December,we explored pottery fragments from Old Europe and found that themes of birds, eggs, and serpents predominated. In January and February, we focused on these air themes as they evolved through Sumerian, Eqyptian, Greek and Roman cultures. Over the years, we have tracked the Dragon's path through each of these civilizations and around the world. Throughout, our contention has been that as Draco hugged the North Celestial Pole, the weave of our tapestry has changed with each Age: during Gemini, themes of Egg, Bird, or Twins combine with Dragon, or Dragon as Serpent; during Taurus, these switch to Bull and Dragon; during Aries, they become Ram and Dragon. While classical, pagan cultures endure, this language, this common vocabulary, can be found the world over. It may have had its heyday, and its greatest impact, during the Age of Gemini, an air sign representing communication.   The oldest Chinese culture of which we have archaeological evidence was the Xia (or Hsia), from 2000 to 1500 BC. The totem of these early peoples was a snake. One of the early Chinese creation myths claims that life began with the egg.   Chaos was like a hen's egg. This was before Heaven or Earth existed. From the egg, P'an-ku was born, and from the heavy elements came the Earth, and from the light elements of the egg came the Sky. P'an-ku filled the space between Earth and Sky, and for 18,000 years grew ten feet a day, pushing Earth and Sky apart. When he died, his body became the various elements of creation as we know them; the inhabited world. The five great mountains came from his body, the rivers and seas from his blood, the soil from his flesh. Wind and clouds are his breath, thunder and lightning his voice, the Sun his left, the Moon his right, eye.   Is it surprising that there is an Indian parallel? P'an-Ku, The Dwarf that filled the Earth The Dwarf P'an-Ku   The 'dwarf' P'an-ku was born from the egg, which some say is represented by the yin-yang symbol which he holds. This 'dwarf' grew at the rate of ten feet a day for 18,000 years, filling the gap between the earth and sky. The yin-yang symbol represents cosmic duality (another Gemini theme), which must come together to make a harmonious whole. Examples of this duality are female-male, earth-sky, Moon-Sun, water-fire, square-round, and dark-light. One reference makes this core of life responsible for the management of Heaven and Earth.   The End of Chaos   Chuang-tzu, a philosopher of the 3rd century BC, relates how the Emperor of the Northern Sea, Hu, and his southern counterpart, Shu, used to meet in the realm of Hun-tun, Emperor of the Center. Hun-tun, whose name means Chaos, was most hospitable, but lacked the seven bodily orifices which other men have. To repay their hospitality, Shu-Hu (which means lightning) decided to bore holes in Hun-tun, at the rate of one hole a day. On the seventh day, when they drilled the last hole, Hun-tun died, and simultaneously the world as we know it came into existence. Translate to: Français | Deutsch | Italiano | Português | Español If you're on a Mac,  and you're NOT using Netscape,  you're missing the special font,  by way of TrueDoc Dynamic Fonts,  as seen in this CLIP: So if you like the font, and you've got the time, download