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at Amazon.com    At the beginning of Chinese history stands a
tablet which in some mysterious way is supposed to be connected
with an explanation of the universe. It has been reconstructed
by later Chinese thinkers and is pictured in the hands of Fuh-Hi
as an arrangement of the kwa figures preserved in the Yih King.
Considering the several traces of Babylonian traditions in
ancient Chinese literature and folklore, would it not be
justifiable to identify the tablet of Fuh-Hi with the ancient
Babylonian "Tablet of Destiny" mentioned in the Enmeduranki
Text, a copy of which was discovered in the archives of
Asurbanipal 20 and was said to contain the "Mystery of Heaven
and Earth?"  p. 34  Enmeduranki, king of Sippar, is the seventh
of the aboriginal kings, and he declares that he received the
divine tablet "from Anu, [Bel, and Ea]." 21  Chinese sages have
their own interpretation of the phrase "the mystery of heaven
and earth." They would at once as