In the Orphic myth, the infant Dionysus Zagreus is lured by the Titans with toys and a mirror, then torn apart and devoured. Only his heart survives, from which Zeus remakes him. Humanity is born from the Titans' ashes — part divine (Dionysus consumed), part titanic (the devourers). Hex 23 (Splitting Apart) is the sparagmos itself: mountain over earth, the structure stripped to its last yang line, dissolution almost complete. Hex 49 (Revolution) is what follows: fire within the lake, the transformation that demands destruction of the old form. The Orphic insight is brutal and precise: the divine must be torn apart and consumed before it can live in human flesh. Hex 23 does not flinch from this either — its counsel is 'it does not further one to go anywhere,' meaning: do not resist the dismemberment. The next hexagram (24, Return) is already implicit.