Nu Kua is usually depicted as the wife of the legendary Fu Hsi, credited inventor of the trigrams and first emperor of China. Nu Kua is actually a goddess form imported from predynastic China where she was revered as a principal creation goddess and wife of Pan Ku. It is Nu Kua who is chiefly responsible for the creation of the human race. Nu Kua is said to bring order into chaos and established the standards of marriage in ancient China, among other things. The original mermaid goddess, Nu Kua was often depicted as having the torso of a woman attached to the body of a serpent or water dragon below. There is evidence to suggest that the I Ching may have actually evolved in predynastic China under matriarchal influence.  In this instance, we are seeking to amplify and/or invoke yin aspects of the Lo Shu Diagram by superimposing it over an image of Nu Kua. The image needn't adhere to an historically accurate portrayal necessarily as it is an idealized glyph of goddess energy in general and might just as easily be applied to other goddess forms such as Haathoor, Nuit, Kali, Tiamat and so on. It demonstrates a simple but effective technique, utilizing the Lo Shu as a multi-faceted focusing tool, capable of being applied in a wide variety of ways. The Lo Shu itself corresponds to the qabbalistic Key of Saturn, being the first "magickal square", where the numbers of all squares aligned vertically, horizontally or diagonally add to 15, called the mystic number of the Key of Saturn. The Key of Saturn is said to have the power of "formation", and would typically be assigned to Binah (Understanding) on the Tree of Life

There exist a number of intriguing parallels between the goddess form of Nu Kua in ancient China and Ningishzida from ancient Sumer that is worthy of closer scrutiny, and in truth, there are parallels between Nu Kua - Pan Ku and Tiamat - Apsu that render the two stories nearly identical in many important respects. It will be interesting to see if time may not reveal a definitive migration of Creation myths from ancient Sumer to predynastic China, though for the moment this is purely speculative so far as I know. Where Ningishzida enters into the picture is with respect to the creation of humankind itself linked to the appearance of some sort of genetics science possessed either by Ningishzida or Nu Kua from all appearances. We have no clear way to determine exactly what kind of science this may have been, though it is certain that the selective breeding of both animals and food was a major mobilizing force behind civilization as we know it. In the case of Nu Kua we have the I Ching itself which many now believe predates Fu Hsi by many hundreds of years at least and would therefore come under Nu Kua's jurisdiction archetypically.

In the Four Pillars, the Earth Ascending arrangement of Trigrams corresponds to Nu Kua. Originally called the Inner Heaven arrangement, scrutinizing the binary mathematics underscoring this chronology reveals that it is actually gravitating upwards from 000 at the bottom rung to 111 at the top. This treatise asserts 2 arrangements as being most especially important for us to attend to in Abrahadabra workings: The Nu Kua (Earth Ascending) arrangement and its compliment, the P'an Ku (Heaven Descending) arrangement as revealed in the chronological order of the Tai Hsuan Ching.

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