Pah Kwa ~ #212-019 $20.00 Pah Kwa comes with a 36" cord, accent bead and booklet. In the center of this magical design is the "Great Monade", also kown as the "Yin-Yang". Enclosed within a never ending circle are the are the two basic dualities of nature: Feminine-Masculine, receptive-actice, negative - postive, etc.Within each half is a single dot that symbolizes that each half contains within it a speck of the opposite half. Pah-Kwa is the circle of ancient chinese "trigrams" which represents the different basic combinations of the two polar opposites. Starting clockwise from the top the trigrams are names ; mountain, lake, fire, thunder, wind, heaven, water and earth. This arrangement is said to ward off the effects of evil forces.