The Discovery of Genesis (73 page)

It is likely, since their historical date of origin coincides closely with this point in time, that the ancestors of the Chinese people left the valley of Shinar in the great migration and journeyed eastward, to soon settle in the fertile land of China. A retrospective depiction of their
migration, to remove, to shift
, would mean nothing except in the light of the Genesis narrative of chapter 11. It concisely summarizes the event in four radicals. In the
west
⁶
(Babel) there had been a
great
is spread apart to accommodate the lower figure)
division, separation
. This radical,
,
joint or seal
, is actually half of a larger seal of authority
. Breaking the seal in half would indicate a
division or separation
. This
division
resulted in their
walking
in a great migratory move.