Cangjie
Chinese · mortal · mythic prehistory · mortal
The portents are the interesting part and the tradition has always read them as ambivalent: millet falls because writing will let people keep accounts and grow rich, and the ghosts weep because writing will let people deceive and be deceived, and because what is written down can no longer be forgotten. A civilisation whose identity rests on its script produced, at the moment of the script's invention, a story about what it would cost. He was not in the registry.
Domains
- writing
Relations
- subordinate to: Huangdi
Sources
- Reference treatment of Cangjie, his four eyes and the portents at the invention.