Is the Confucian I Ching related to other Divination Systems?
If you take the date of origin of the 8×8 = 2^6 = 64 element I Ching as time of the First Emperor Fu Xi (around 2900 BC) then it is likely that the Shinto 128 element Japanese Futomani Divination and the16 element Islamic Ilm Al Raml Divination systems are younger derivatives using expansion (doubling) or contraction (8+8 instead of 8×8), respectively. However – see “In Search of the Cradle of Civilization” by Feuerstein, Kak, and Frawley (Quest 1995) – “… The Rig-Veda is the oldest book in the Sanskrit language, indeed in any Indo-European language. More than that, if we are correct, it is the oldest book in the world … The fact that the Rig-Veda mentions a stellar configuration that corresponds to a date from 6000 B.C. to 7000 B.C. …” so that the 64 element I Ching may have been derived from the Rig-Veda, whose first sukt has 240 elements, as does the root vector polytope of the E8 Lie algebra. Further, the Rig-Veda (and consequently all the other Divination systems, including