[KS] 5th 14th 23rd

[Frank Hoffmann]

Talking about Navagraha ... a possible relation/source, but at this 
time just your 'hunch,' yes? ... there is a Tang Dynasty translation of 
the mystical Navagraha calendar of astrology.

_Tang Kaiyuan zhanjing_ 唐開元占經 (also _Da Tang Kaiyuan zhanjing_ 大唐
開元占經)
Further info:
http://www.chinaknowledge.de/Literature/Daoists/tangkaiyuanzhanjing.html

Full text:
=> http://www.eee-learning.com/article/2296
specifically see ch. 104
==> http://www.eee-learning.com/book/kaiyenjan104

However, it seems that, again, this PARTICULAR combination of these 
three days 五 十四 二十三 would have to be something interpreted into 
this calendar, would have to be filtered out from the calendar. Or, to 
put it in different terms, while the 9-step thing is something that 
this calendar and possibly other such esoteric systems IN EAST ASIA 
(not so much based on astronomy but more on astrology) work with, that 
calendar does not seem to 'bundle' these particular days 5-14-23 in any 
way (as days not to go out, as the next tree brunch may fall on your 
head, or whatever). And that would then also be true for Jonathan 
Best's note about such applications in Heian Japanese literature -- 
that calendar was known, but was that particular combination 5-14-23 
ever mentioned? This seems a very particular thing limited to Korea. 
.... Now, you guys are the Koryŏ specialists. But I am into data, and 
the data does not give me that (no mention anywhere, not in about 70 
Mill. full-text documents searched, using four different fuzzy matching 
algorithms that work well for such text searches). If that combination 
had any sort of meaning outside of Korea, then that search would have 
shown that (although it may not have answered Werner's question). From 
that point of view, wouldn't the conclusion then be that the "source" 
seems a development within Koryŏ, because it can be excluded with 
relatively high certainty that any custom of bundling of these dates 
existed in related, surrounding cultures? Thus far my own logical 
conclusion (entirely based on just data).

Frank