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Ford
A shallow crossing of a river or stream. Not bridge as a built span, and not strait as a sea passage alone.
Hellenic religion
Ford appears in Hellenic religion.
Herodotus’s campaign narrative repeatedly seats armies at river fords and crossings in the Greek traveler frame. A named ford in that geography speech, not bridge or pontoon-bridge as built spans already walked and not Caesar’s Rhine ford alone.
from Herodotus · Histories, c. 440s BCE
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Chinese tradition
Ford appears in Chinese tradition.
Wilhelm’s Yijing counsel repeatedly names crossing the great water / ford speech among hexagram situations. A named ford in that classic’s crossing imagery, not a gazetteer crossing and not bridge as a built span dump.
from Richard Wilhelm / Cary F. Baynes (translation) · I Ching (Yijing), Wilhelm 1924; Baynes English 1950
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sources
- Histories · Herodotus
Herodotus, Histories.
- I Ching (Yijing) · Richard Wilhelm / Cary F. Baynes (translation)
The I Ching or Book of Changes, trans. Richard Wilhelm, English Cary F. Baynes.