Thanks for a reader informing me about this.
I found mention of Robert Temple comparing the Pythagorean Comma to
the Solar calendar. Fascinating! thanks. That original source is from
Ernest McClain (with whom I corresponded a bit back around 15 years
ago!).
By octave reduction we see that the Pythagorean comma is worth exactly
524288:531441, approximately 73:74. This is the amount by which six
wholetones of 8:9 exceed the octave 1:2 ... A true number appropriate to lives. The comma we have defined exceeds the octave 1:2 by about the same ratio by which Plato's year of 365
days exceeds his calendar base of 360 (12 months of 30 days each), a problem
he solves in Laws in the Egyptian manner by adding five extra “election” days
at the end. The comma of 73:74 and the ratio 360:365 = 72:73 show the same
discrepancy in the soul as in “days and nights and months and years.
And so China preserved the secrets of the alchemical training. The first note as
the 1 was also based on 81 as the number of lunar months to align with 19 solar
years and then this multiplied together gave the difference between the octave as
the 1 with the 2/3 and 3/2 as the Perfect Fifth Yang as the Solar energy of the
Year or also known as the Pythagorean CommaSo the 2nd note as 6 of 9 was from 90 feet long with a circumference of 9 as 81 -
the number of Lunar Months as the 1st note as Heaven. 6 was 2 as Earth x 15 (the
solar month as 24 solar months in a year) which gives 12 months (or 12 harmonic
notes) with Earth as the value of 2 solar months!! So 30 is the value of Earth and
take 2 to get 60 as the length x 6 of the diameter to get 360 as the solar year!
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