Earth Element Flag — 地球元素標誌

So what are the ancient elements?  Half the world includes Earth, Air, Fire, & Water while the other half thinks about Earth, Fire, Water, Metal and Wood.  It all depends on which culture you grew up in.  But since the world is basically one big city, its time to make sense and harmonize the Eastern and Western of looking at the ancient elements, with a modern take.

Basically, the cultures that follow Western-Roman Astrology use four elements, while cultures that follow Eastern-Chinese Astrology came up with five elements.  Both the Eastern and Western Zodiacs overlap by three original elements: Fire, Water, and Earth.   The difference is that East has a category for Metal and Wood, which the West does not.  Yet, the West has a category for Air, while the East does not.

One theory is that the Western Mind knew that matter could exist in different forms: solid, liquid, gas, and plasma.  Thus in a way, the early Western model of elements had a rudimentary understanding of the different states of matter.  To match it up: solid-Earth, liquid-Water, gas-Air, plasma-Fire.

Likewise in the East, another rudimentary aspect about matter was understood.  Ancient Chinese thinkers figured that matter could be categorized as metallic or non-metallic with their Wood and Metal classifications.  Wood is mostly made up of non-metallic matter like: carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, phosphorus, sulfur and such. While the vast majority of other atoms are metal.  There is even a few that straddle the line like Silicon and Selenium being 'Trans" so to speak, a mix of being both metal and organic. 

But his post is about the Ancient Element of Earth, in particular its newly branded flag that should convey the idea of Earth.  The Elemental Earth flag is a horizontal tri-bar of burgundy, brown, and yellow.

In the modern sense, the Earth Elements represents the ethnic composition of an individual.  The direct ethnic blood line is your Earth Elemental.  Like solid earth, you Earth Elemental can not change.  If you are born Irish you will die Irish.

Yet there can be a separation between an Earth Elemental via Water and Fire.  Suppose an Irish-Canadian and Irish-American meet up.  They may have very similar manners yet their belong to different Fire Tribes and it could lead to friction if one is not careful.  Likewise an ethnically Chinese person adopted to English speaking people in Canada will always be of the Chinese Earth Elemental by appearance, but her Water Elemental will be English with a Canadian accent, and her Fire Elemental will rage with Canadian Pride; meaning she will have a natural proclivity to undercut her 'obnoxious' neighbors south of the border.  

It is interesting to note that Tommy Chong, of Cheech & Chong, has two Earth Tribal Elements.  Mr. Chong belongs to the Earth Tribes of China and Ireland.  His mother was Irish-Canadian and father was Chinese-Canadian.  Thus his Water Tribe is English and his Fire Tribe is Canada. For the record, Cheech's Fire Tribe is the USA since he was born in California.  But Cheech's Earth Tribe is Mexico.

I suppose this means that Tommy Chong has Irish-Earth Bending and Chinese-Earth Bending abilities; Earth Bending as taken from the animated Avatar television series.  Memba' dat?

So what's your Earth Tribe, or Earth Tribes?   Remember do not to confuse it with language or political nationality.

那麼,古代元素是什麼? 世界的一半包括地球、空氣、火和水,而另一半則考慮地球、火、水、金屬和木材。 這完全取決於你成長於哪種文化。 但是,由於世界基本上是一個大城市,它的時間來有意義和統一東西方看古代元素,與現代採取。

基本上,遵循西羅馬占星術的文化使用四個元素,而沿襲東西方占星術的文化則提出了五個要素。 東部和西部十二生肖都重疊了三個原始元素:火、水和地球。  不同的是,東方有一個類別的金屬和木材,而西方沒有。 然而,西方有一個空氣類別,而東方沒有。

一種理論認為,西方頭腦知道物質可能以不同形式存在:固體、液體、氣體和等離子體。 因此,從某種意義上說,早期的西方元素模型對物質的不同狀態有初步的瞭解。 與之相匹配:固體-地球,液態水,氣體-空氣,等離子火。

同樣,在東方,人們也理解了關於問題的另一個基本方面。 中國古代思想家認為,物質可以分為金屬或非金屬,其木材和金屬分類。 木材主要由非金屬物質組成,如:碳、氧、氮、磷、硫等。而絕大多數其他原子是金屬。 甚至有幾個跨越線像矽和硒是"Trans",可以說,混合是金屬和有機。

但他的帖子是關於地球的古代元素,特別是它的新品牌的旗幟,應該傳達地球的概念。 元素地球標誌是一個水準三杆的酒紅色,棕色和黃色。

在現代意義上,地球元素代表一個人的種族構成。 直接的民族血脈是你的地球元素。 像固體地球一樣,你地球元素不能改變。 如果你出生在愛爾蘭人,你會死愛爾蘭。 然而,通過水和火,地球元素之間可以分離。 假設一個愛爾蘭-加拿大和愛爾蘭裔美國人相遇。 他們可能有非常相似的舉止,但他們屬於不同的火部落,如果不小心,可能會導致摩擦。 同樣,在加拿大,一個被收養給講英語的人的華裔人,在外表上永遠是中國地球元素,但她的水元素將是帶有加拿大口音的英語,她的火元素將憤怒與卡努克驕傲,這意味著她自然會傾向于在邊境以南削弱美國人。

值得注意的是,湯米崇,切奇和崇,有兩個地球部落元素。 鐘先生屬於中國和愛爾蘭的地球部落。 他的母親是愛爾蘭裔加拿大人,父親是加拿大華人。 因此水部落是英語和他的火部落是加拿大。記錄在案的是,切奇的火部落是在美國,因為他出生在加利福尼亞州。 但是切奇的地球部落是墨西哥。

你的地球部落是什麼? 記住不要把它和語言或國籍混淆。