The Seba library treats Wagon in 6 passages, across 4 authors (including Wang Bi, Richard John Lynn, Bloom, Harold, Beekes, Robert).
Here one has his wagon hauled back and oxen controlled… That ‘his wagon is hauled back’ means that where Third Yin treads i
Wang Bi reads the hauled-back wagon as an emblem of psychological and positional incongruence, where the subject’s misaligned disposition prevents forward movement and produces symbolic arrest.
, The Classic of Changes: A New Translation of the I Ching as Interpreted by Wang Bi, 1994thesis
the rain shaping the wagon that is ours, the load that is no longer theirs that felled and sawed it nor yet theirs that bought it and which is not ours either, lie on our wagon though it does
Bloom, reading Faulkner’s Darl, shows how the wagon becomes the site of an ontological meditation on being, possession, and identity, functioning as depth-psychological ground for questions of selfhood and absence.
, The Daemon Knows: Literary Greatness and the American Sublime, 2015thesis
OIr. fen ‘kind of wagon’ < IE *ueĝ-no-, OHG wagan ‘wagon’ < IE *uoĝ-no-; a suffix *-tlo- is used in Lat. vehiculum
Beekes establishes the deep Indo-European etymology of ‘wagon,’ linking it to a root shared by vessel, draught animal, and vehicle, grounding the symbol’s archaic range of conveyance meanings.
, Etymological Dictionary of Greek, 2010supporting
Cl1tqvT] ‘four-wheeled wagon’ (ll.), synonymous with uflu�u, see Delebecque 1951: 174.
Beekes documents the Greek four-wheeled wagon (apēnē) as a distinct lexical item, contributing to the cross-linguistic typology of the wagon symbol in ancient thought.
, Etymological Dictionary of Greek, 2010supporting
the Lord and I proving stronger than the devil and he, he had to get out of the way, or the wagon would have gone over him. So I gave the wagon to the boy.
James records a conversion narrative in which surrendering the wagon rather than contending for it functions as the decisive act of spiritual transformation, making the object a vehicle of moral-psychological passage.
, The Varieties of Religious Experience Amazon, 1902supporting
KUKAOC; [m.pl.] ‘circle, ring, wheel’, also metaph. of circular objects, e.g. ‘circular square, wall around the city’
The Greek kuklos entry, treating wheel and circle as cognate concepts, provides a peripheral etymological context for the wheel-and-vehicle complex adjacent to the wagon symbol.
, Etymological Dictionary of Greek, 2010aside