Honestly, first: the Chinese below is the
public-domain source text — digitized by
Project Gutenberg ebook #25501
(易經, catalogued as "Anonymous"). Gutenberg only distributes works confirmed public domain in the US, and this
is the ≈3,000-year-old Zhouyi/Yijing text itself — no modern translator, no added copyright layer. The short
English hexagram
name under each is an
AI-generated one-line gloss (Claude Code), a title, not a
scholarly translation of the full passage — do not mistake it for Wilhelm, Legge, or any human translation.
The other layers below (this site's English reading, the cross-lens gate/sign/chakra reading) are separate,
later, clearly-marked works — never confused with the source above them. The two
Legge layers
(Zhouyi core; Ten Wings Great Image) are James Legge's
public-domain translation (1882), stacked in
stratigraphic order: the Western Zhou divination core first, the Confucian commentary — added centuries
later — after it, each labeled with its own era.