Citation Needed - 5. Music, Temperament, and Social Concord

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The Creation of Order »  Query: 5. Music, Temperament, and Social Concord

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Investigators have long analyzed the symbolism of public architecture—the Mesopotamian ziggurats, their orientation, number of stages (seven), and colors (corresponding to those of the planets).

Citation needed. See Chapter 9 (The Archaic Cosmology of Cities: Building the Kosmos on Earth), especially the section titled “A Paradigmatic Capital: Ecbatana and Its Cosmological Symbolism,” for possible hints.

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