Episode 012: But You Said They Were GOOD Omens …




Romance of the Three Kingdoms Podcast show

Summary: Dong Zhuo learns that broken chariots, wild horses, and melancholy songs are, in fact, not auspicious signs.<br> <br> * <a href="http://www.3kingdomspodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/3Kingdoms012.pdf">Transcript (PDF)</a><br> * <a href="http://www.3kingdomspodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/ep_012_map.png">Map of key locations</a><br> * <a href="https://www.google.com/fusiontables/DataSource?docid=1nw5TP7CF7udwnih-1CePxjNwMkeiXDFXhhA0_SGg">Graph of characters and relationships</a><br> <br> Quick Explanation of Another Omen<br> In this episode, Dong Zhuo encountered a Taoist priest holding a sign on his way to court. The sign is a 10-foot-long cloth, with the Chinese character for “mouth” written on the top and bottom. So it looked something like this:<br> <a href="https://i1.wp.com/www.3kingdomspodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/lu1.jpg"></a><br> Coincidentally, the character for Lü Bu’s last name looks like this:<br> <a href="https://i1.wp.com/www.3kingdomspodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/lu2.jpg"></a><br>  <br>  <br>