Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson

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Adashtanas

 

40 Beelzebub Tells How People Learned and Again Forgot About the Fundamental Cosmic Law of Heptaparaparshinokh

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“And, namely, these whole notes were called thus:

The first highest ‘Adashtanas’
The second highest ‘Evotanas’
The third highest ‘Govorktanis’
The fourth highest ‘Maikitanis’
The fifth highest ‘Midotanis’
The sixth highest ‘Lookotanas’
The seventh highest ‘Sonitanis’

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“The contemporary beings of the Earth now call these same whole notes: ‘do,’ ‘si,’ ‘la,’ ‘sol,’ ‘fa,’ ‘mi,’ ‘re.’