A previous blog entry in this series demonstrated how the Yin Yang Symbol,
could be split along it’s internal boundary into two identical halves.
The spatial relationship between the two Yin Yang halves was then changed as shown next.
It was noted that the shape created by the two Yin Yang halves in the picture above resembled the wave form of an electrical signal.
The holes in the two Yin Yang halves were then aligned with each other,
a white dot was drawn on the black Yin Yang half,
and some lines were added to the white Yin Yang half,
to produce the bird that can be seen in the picture above.
The purpose of all of that manipulation was to try to gain some insight into the meaning of the Yin Yang Symbol. While the ability to create a bird from a Yin Yang symbol might be astounding, creating a bird shape from Yin Yang halves does not seem to provide any obvious answer to the meaning of the Yin Yang Symbol.
Casting about for anything that might help determine the meaning of the Yin Yang Symbol, no matter how inconsequential or seemingly unrelated, I decide to focus on the fact that the rearranged Yin Yang halves from which the bird shape is created
also resemble a wave form.
One of the properties of waves is that they repeat themselves. The next picture is provided to prove the Yin Yang halves retain the wave even when compared to a actual repeating wave.
Because the Yin Yang Symbol is so intertwined with Kung Fu and other areas of knowledge related to the human body, it seems reasonable to assume the meaning of the Yin Yang Symbol must somehow be related to the human body. Acting on that high probability assumption, a computer model human body is compared to the repeating wave shape created from Yin Yang halves in the next picture.
There do not seem to be any initial similarities between the human body and the Yin Yang wave. The constantly repeated advice in this series is “Do not just accept what you are given. You can change anything you are given to try and solve the problem”.
Since we can do anything we want with the evidence provided, it is decided rotating the Yin Yang wave until it is vertically straight up and down might be of use.
A copy of the vertical Yin Yang wave is then placed in front and back of the human body for comparison.
There it is! There is the connection! The front and back of the human body have a wave shape like the Yin Yang halves.
Now that I think I have the problem figured out, I know what to do to test if I am right.
I rotate the human body to the rear view and place two vertical Yin Yang waves on either side of it.
The result is what I expected. The sides of the human body also have a wavy shape.
Just to verify what I am already certain of, an overhead view of the human body is then compared to a horizontally oriented Yin Yang wave.
The front and back of the human body are also wave shaped.
That cannot be a coincidence can it?
The purpose of this series of blog entries is to try and figure out the meaning of the Yin Symbol. Could it really be a coincidence that a half of a Yin Yang Symbol looks like a cresting wave,
two Yin Yang halves can be rearranged to look like a wave form,
multiple Yin Yang halves can be strung together to look like a repeating wave form,
and the human body, which is strongly connected with the Yin Yang Symbol in disciplines such as Kung Fu and Chinese medicine, has wave shapes all over it?
The answer to that question is “No”. It is not a coincidence”.
The exterior of the human body must exhibit a wavy shape because of the way it is constructed at a deep level.
While it is true that it is not a coincidence that a Yin Yang Symbol can be changed into a wave shape and the surface of the human body is wave shaped, that is not necessarily the answer to the question which is the basis of this series of blog entries.
“What is the meaning or purpose of the Yin Yang Symbol.”