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Mircea Eliade – Chinese mythology
Identifier
001788
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
Grouped for convenience under Taoism although it applies to other Chinese systems too
A description of the experience
Patterns in Comparative Religion – Mircea Eliade
In Chinese mythology, the miraculous tree grows at the centre of the universe, where the perfect capital is to be found; it unites the Nine Springs with the Nine Heavens. They call it 'standing wood' (Kien-Mou), and they say that at midday nothing upright standing near it can cast any shadow