K^ en / Keeping Still, Mountain

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The third [nine], undivided, shows its subject keeping his loins at rest, and separating the ribs (from the body below). The situation is perilous and the heart glows with suppressed excitement.

When the calves are kept at rest, advance is stopped, but no other harm ensues. Not so when the loins are kept at rest, and unable to bend, for the connection between the upper and lower parts of the body is then broken. The dissatisfaction increases to an angry heat. Paragraph 3 is unusually difficult. For 'loins' P. Regis has scapulae, and for ribs, renes; Canon McClatchie says: - 'Third Nine is stopping at a limit, and separating what is in continued succession (i.e. the backbone); thus the mind', etc.