spiral wrote:Ok so this is a reworking of the idea that Newton got from your Greek sophists that there was a connection between colours, musical notes, metals and the days of the week......
I always found the seven colours of the rainbow a bit odd as a child - why separate purple into indigo and violet? When I found out that Newton deliberately fudged it to make it 7 and not 6 it was something of a relief.
In Godwin's book he states that it all relates to the music of the spheres. Each planet's sound corresponding to a particular vowel and the names of the gods being composed of words containing just vowels. Hence gods like Ea and Io, etc. He also claims the name Jehovah, when spoken, is composed of just a string of vowels.
It's interesting to note how the numbers 7 and 12 figure. 7 planets and 12 constellations, 7 days and 12 months, 7 notes in a key from a possible 12 on the musical scale. Should there be 12 consonants to go with the seven vowels???
A remnant of all this can be seen in the do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, ti singy thingy. Sol representing sun.
As to what the Brits were doing it might have been this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canntaireachd
Canntaireachd is the ancient Scottish Highland method of notating classical pipe music or Ceòl Mòr by a combination of definite syllables, which means the various tunes could be more easily recollected by the learner, and could be more easily transmitted orally ...in general, the vowels represent the notes, and consonants the embellishments
Where does music fit in the Megalithic world?
