ELEMENTARY ELEMENTS: 氣土火水

ELEMENTARY ELEMENTS: 氣土火水
KENNETH E. HALL    HOUSTON    OCTOBER 11, 2015

When I was in grammar school, I learned, I guess in forth or fifth grade, that in ancient China, they believed that everything was composed of:
氣   AIR 
土   EARTH
火   FIRE 
水   WATER
...or a combination of these four basic elements.
 This, I was told, was an oversimplification which by the time of the Renaissance had been totally discredited.
Then I took High School Chemistry, and about that same time seriously began to study the Chinese written language.
In my first Chemistry class, the teacher explained to us that there are three forms of matter: liquid, solid, and gas, and that everything in the universe is either matter or energy.
I looked at my elemental Chinese notes and noticed the four characters I wrote earlier: 氣土火水
Earth 土 = solid. 
Water 水 = liquid. 
Air       氣  = gas
Combine the three: MATTER
FIRE  火 = ENERGY!

And so maybe those ancient Chinese had it right after all!
Those things that have been in existence long, long ago, still exist today. The Ancient Ones speak to us through the rocks and the trees, and through the very blood that they passed down to us, and they tell us about this world we live in. We can benefit from their knowledge — provide we have sense enough to listen.


                     SYMBOLS: Staff of Hermes

                                     
                          Caduceus

DEF.: Caduceus, Latin, and in Greek: κηρύκειον - kērū́keion "herald's wand, or staff"; A winged staff with 2 serpents intertwined. Mythological symbol of Hermes. 
To many it is the symbol of life. We use it today as a symbol for the Medical profession.

"The caduceus is the staff carried by Hermes in Greek mythology and consequently by Hermes Trismegistus in Greco-Egyptian mythology. The same staff was also borne by heralds in general, for example by Iris, the messenger of Hera." --- Wikipedia




The original symbol did not have snakes; it had RIBBONS. 

Some FOUR THOUSAND years later we discovered DNA, and that it is ...intertwined ribbons!! 


DNA MOLECULE
 
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Maybe the ancient Greeks had it right all along!
Think about it!