Why do the graphic compositions of the Chinese characters that make up all the Ba-gua names seem to tell a different story than the symbols they represent? How did the eight symbols Sky, Wind, Fire, Earth, Mountain, Swamp. Water, Thunder come about? Why only three of the five Chinese natural elements Water, Fire, Earth were part of the Ba-gua symbols? What was the reason that forced these ancient inventors of the Ba-gua and the I-Ching to drop the two other elements Metal and Wood? It’s strange, isn’t it?