English: "Principal deities of the Chinese", a Chinese engraving reproduced in Kircher's book
(A) Fo (Buddha)
(B) Confutius (Confucius)
(C) Lauzu (Laozi)
...
(F) Dragon with a tortoise shell (A later writer explained this feature by suggesting that it alludes to the mythical animal that revealed the trigrams to Fu Xi; see P. Carus, pp 167-168
Latina: Schematismus secundus principalia Sinensium Numina exhibens
Час створення
Published by Kircher in 1667; original picture must be older
Джерело
A 17th-century Chinese picture reproduced in Athanasii Kircher, "China monumentis: qua sacris quà profanis..." (a.k.a. China Illsutrata), next to p. 137. This scan is from http://kircher.stanford.edu/gallery/index.html
Автор
An unknown Chinese artist. The Latin caption is by Athanasius Kircher (or his Jesuit collaborators)
Ця робота перебуває у суспільному надбанні у країнах і територіях, де авторське право охороняється протягом життя автора та 70 років після того або менше.
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