蠱 → 鼎

Commentary

Wind beneath the mountain drives game toward the hunters, and the transformation ascends as fire above the wood — the transformative Cauldron. Deer and roe, chickens and hares gather in the eastern lands. All pursue the chase together; nine are caught out of ten. The lord rejoices. The hunt is spectacularly successful — nearly perfect efficiency in gathering the bounty that corruption had scattered. The game assembling in the east suggests resources naturally converging where order is restored. From Work on the Decayed to the Cauldron, the raw catch is refined into something nourishing. Fire above wood cooks the offering; the cauldron transforms raw material into sacred sustenance. What was wild and dispersed becomes civilized and shared.