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| Description | Shang dynasty grapheme for 星 xīng, "star", also meaning "god", "ancestor", "progenitor". Source: Didier, John C. (2009). "In and Outside the Square: The Sky and the Power of Belief in Ancient China and the World, c. 4500 BC – AD 200". Sino-Platonic Papers. Victor H. Mair (192). Volume II: Representations and Identities of High Powers in Neolithic and Bronze China, pp. 213–219, comprising the sections "口, Di, the Ancestors, Shangdi, and Xiadi" and "口 as the Central Stellar Home of the High Ancestors and Conduit of Communication from the Center of Earth with the Center of the Sky". |
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