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I present to you “gain”

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don’t worry about why i had to google this but this example sentence is killing me

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not my candy ass becoming a crab fisherman

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this is quite literally on-par with a royal baby announcement

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Terms occurring both in the original post (which I originally did this for) and this one

diapason "through them all": octave diapente "through five ones": fifth diatessaron "through four ones": fourth diapason materialis: octave of the material world diapason formalis: octave of the world of ideas tonus: pythagorean whole tone/major second semitonius: (pythagoean?) half tone/minor second diapason &/cum diapente: "twelfth" bis/dis diapason "twice diapason": double octave

dupla proportio "double proportion": superparticular by a whole i.e. 2/1 sesquialtera proportio: superparticular by a half i.e. 3/2 sesquitertia proportio: superparticular by a third i.e. 4/3 sesquioctava proportio: superparticular by an eighth i.e. 9/8 tripla proportio: 3/1 quadrupla proportio: 4/1

Terms occuring only in the second picture of this post:

Mentis Apollineae Vis Has Movet Undique Musas: The power of the the Apollinarian mind guides these Muses in every respect Euphrosyne, Thalia, Aglaia: the Charites/Graces

mese "middle": the middle note, fourth note of the second tetrachord, a lichanos meson "the one struck with the index out of the middle notes": third note of the second tetrachord, g parhypate meson "next to the highest of the middle strings": second note of the second tetrachord, f hypate meson "highest of the middle strings": first note of the second tetrachord, e (called highest due to the ordering of strings on greek monochord instruments) (but it is also the fourth note of the first tetrachord) lichanos hypaton "index-note out of the highest ones": third note of the first tetrachord (again, consisting of the "upmost" strings of the tetrachord), d parhypate hypaton "next-highest of the highest ones": second note of the first tetrachord, c hypate hypaton "highest of the highest ones": first note of the first tetrachord, B proslambanomene "accessory": needed to complete the lower octave, A (see this diagram, which also includes the synemmenon, diezeugmenon and metabolaeon tetrachords) in the first picture, the earth is associated with Γ (one note lower than the proslambanomene), the other elements with A-C, the 8 planets with D-d (the sun is at the octave boundary); the notes in the complementary third are associated with tiers of heaven and their respective angelic orders (they seem to be named Ephionia, Epiphonomina and Epiphania, two of which are meaningless but found in multiple other texts) . the hand of god tunes the monochord. in the second picture, each of these is associated with 8 of the 9 muses, the 8 classical or neoclassical modes and the 7 planets + firmament. Thalia is associated with the earth and the other elements.

Terms that only occur in the third picture:

Tubus ellipticus: elliptical tube Tubus conicus: conical tube Tubus cochleata: tube wound like a snailshell

I still dont understand what this tree from the original post represents, I would appreciate the help.

hey ct :) the other day i posted some medieval music theory diagrams and i was really struck by how similar some of them look to kabbalistic diagrams, which made me wonder about the intersection of musicology and cosmology/philosophy/occultism (?) in general, particularly in the middle ages. obviously this is an extremely broad topic, sorry. i just feel like from a modern standpoint it's easy to forget how essential the study of music theory was to the medieval education system and how intertwined it was with arithemtic and geometry. so i'm just curious, are there any medieval thinkers/traditions that come to your mind that took abstract structures proposed by music theory and sort of went ontologically wild with them, i.e. mapped them onto the structure of reality/the universe itself?

Utriusque Cosmi, Maioris scilicet et Minoris, 1617 (Robert Fludd)

Practica musice, 1496 (showing Apollo, the Muses, the planetary spheres and musical modes)

Phonurgia Nova (New Science of Sound Production), 1673 (This text itself isn't occult, but Kircher himself fits the bill) (Athanasius Kircher)

Kinda! Allusions to the universe as fundamentally musical in nature go back to Pythagoras. It meshes well for antique and medieval doctrines of amity and antipathy, which transposes neatly onto harmony and disharmony. It was often compared to the orbits of the planets, each orbiting at a set distance from the earth in accordance with some greater universal harmony. As far as I'm aware, that wasn't an uncommon way to think of the world.

Music theory is one of those things that gets transposed onto basically everything. If a religion goes on for long enough, you can basically assume that someone will develop some interesting spiritualized music theory. Its not something I've ever delved into personally, largely because I find music theory confusing.

As for Kabbalistic literature specifically, the story goes that Issac Luria was inspired by watching the sun filter through a complex fountain in Safed. I've always associated post-lurianic diagrams with flowing water. But if I recall correctly, Hebrew letters were also regularly used for musical notation, so music-as-mysticism is only a stones throw away. I would be shocked if writing on the subject doesn't exist.

Personally, music-as-mysticism is something I generally associate with Sufism. I know Inayat Khan was popular in part because of both his musical talents, and his doctrine that incorporated musical concepts. But he was pretty modern!

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things i’ll not call you a whore for:

sexual activity

how you dress

things i’ll call you a whore for:

stealing my food 

stealing my lemons

my cat likes you more than me

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google them

some of the letter in the poll don't load on my browser, should i just skip them?

no. despite my repeated insistence that all the questions are optional and that I do not expect most people to fill out the whole thing, it is mandatory that you specifically develop opinions on the letters you can't see in the poll

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this is how the cold war ended

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poll idea that's too big for tumblr. what are your favorite letters?

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Seven Ancient Moon Goddesses (+ the current one)

1. Verithurusa, leaving the Sky Realm, banished by her father for her impurity

2. Lesilla, Queen of Mernitia on the Blue Moon, before it fell to the earth

3. Gerra, the suffering woman, impaled, blinded, and mutilated

4. Rashorana, mother of monsters, the first Illuminate

5. Ulurda the Huntress, having caught the Sky Bear and forcing him to release all the stars he ate

6. Natha, guarding the gates to Hell

6.5? The Red Goddess, above the site of her victory at Castle Blue

7. Zaytenara, the White Moon that is to come

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gravitational potential energy sounds fake...what do u mean the idea of something falling over is a transmutable form of energy

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gravitational potential energy sounds fake...what do u mean the idea of something falling over is a transmutable form of energy

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The pills meme but it's things i wish i had

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@gothic-architecture

Nosferatu, 1922.

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wiggles my ass at you bug style

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poll idea that's too big for tumblr. what are your favorite letters?

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just had an absolutely atrocious thought