Ts'ang Chieh / Cangjie
25th Century B.C.E
The Mythical Inventor of Writing: he has four eyes for double sight.
It is said that Ts'ang Chieh (Cangjie), the Diviner of the semi-mythical Yellow Emperor (2898-2679 BCE), used two of his eyes to observe the Heavens and the other two to observe the Earth, which enabled him to have a unified view of both.
“According to certain ancient books, Cangjie carefully observed the shapes of shadows cast by trees and the markings left by animals, such as the print of a bird claw in the dust. From these, he took inspiration, and inscribed representations of the these forms onto sticks, thereby creating the first Chinese pictorgraphic characters. An ancient story recalls that when Cangjie created these first characters, the gods caused heavy rains, loud thunder, and great earthquakes; so upset were they that a human being had cracked the code of the mysteries of the universe.” (Hwa, Penrose)
