Tuesday, March 30, 2004
The Terracotta Warriors
The Terracotta Warriors: The Secret Codes of the Emperor's Army
TERRACOTTA WARRIORS: The Secret Codes of the Emperor's Army by Maurice Cotterell, HC from Bear & Co./Inner Traditions, ISBN 159143033X. When the first emperor of China, Ch'in Shi Huangdi, felt his death approaching, he decreed that he be entombed within a pyramid protected by an immortal army of terracotta warriors. In 1974, archeologists discovered the first of more than 8,000 life-size terracotta warriors near this emperor's pyramid tomb. Shi Huangdi was a keeper of the sacred solar science of the ancients. Using his unique understanding of how and why ancient civilizations encoded this extraordinary knowledge, Cotterell decodes the emperor's farewell message concealed in the terracotta warriors.
