Study of Beelzebub's Tales

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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 firsthighest‘Adashtanas’
The secondhighest‘Evotanas’
The thirdhighest‘Govorktanis’
The fourthhighest‘Maikitanis’
The fifthhighest‘Midotanis’
The sixthhighest‘Lookotanas’
The seventhhighest‘Sonitanis’

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