Just so you don’t think it’s all work and no play here, I will throw in a couple of pictures from our outing to the heurige, way up in the hills, with a lovely view of the vineyards, where a bunch of us went last night. Heurigen are rustic wine taverns that make their own wine from grapes they grow right there. In 1784 Joseph II decreed that each vintner in the suburbs of Vienna could sell his own wine right on his doorstep to paying guests. Whew! What an enlightened despot! Most of the heurigen are in a district called Grinzing, which is where Beethoven lived, and is conveniently to the north of Vienna, right where our hotel is.

Oh, I found this on the internet, on a Masonic history page:

"In pre-Christian China, one also found the Demiurge, Fu Hsih, and his female counterpart, N Kua, displaying the compass and square as symbols of their male and female creative powers."

So my instinct was correct. Fu is an ancient Chinese god.