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Social Analogies Based on Musical Temperament
Harmony/cacophony. Concord/dissonance. In society. Babylonian Creation epic Enuma Elish, Tablet I, lines 38–40: (McClain[1] 1976, p. 142Dead Source LinkThe source link no longer works; Ernest G. McClain’s The Myth of Invariance appears to have been removed from the Internet Archive. Please help us find a different publicly accessible source link.; quoting from Alexander Heidel,[2] The Babylonian Genesis [Chicago 1942 (1951): p. 15]):
- “Bel-Enlil is replaced by Marduk = 25 under fascinating acoustical conditions. Apsu, the primeval ‘begettor’ of the gods, is disturbed by the noise of his celestial children… and decrees their death:
- ‘By day I cannot rest, by night I cannot sleep;
- I will destroy (them) and put an end to their way.
- That silence be established, and then let us sleep!’”
- ↑ Ernest G. McClain, The Myth of Invariance: The Origin of the Gods, Mathematics and Music from the Rg Veda to Plato (Maine: 1976), p. 142.Dead Source LinkThe source link no longer works; Ernest G. McClain’s The Myth of Invariance appears to have been removed from the Internet Archive. Please help us find a different publicly accessible source link.
- ↑ Alexander Heidel, The Babylonian Genesis (Chicago: 1942 [1951]), p. 15.
