The main reason I'm an atheist

[Little Rik]

So Shiva came and stole all the notes from us and left us with only seven?
What a bitch!  

Gee, that's funny, because we have found 9,000 Chinese bone flutes that play nearly perfect western-type scales. 
http://www.ancient-origins.net/news-hist...ina-001005

Of course, different musical scales evolved with different peoples and cultures.  And we know it's all about frequencies - which frequencies will tune together to form a "beatless" merge, which are easily perceptible to the human ear, what is sing-able, what is easy to build into a musical instrument, etc.  Any string player (or even some brass and woodwind) can demonstrate a quarter-tone, but building a quarter-tone piano has proved to be a challenging task. 
History of the 12-tone scale

So just as we cannot claim that Yahweh (who supposedly created the universe 3000 years after these flutes were played) influenced all humankind, we also cannot attribute that to Shiva.

Whooooo, whooooooooo, whoooooooooo.

The fact that these bones are able to produce a sound doesn't necessary means that they were
used as musical instruments before Shiva.
Here is a study about these bones chewed by hyenas.

http://www.ancient-origins.net/news-hist...nas-002874

Not just hyenas but many other carnivorous animals were very keen on sucking the nutritious bone marrow after an animal was killed.
Breaking the extremes of the bone was not enough to get the marrow out so they probably realized that by digging holes the bone marrow would come out easier.
This study seem rubbish but again we have seen monkeys breaking hard nuts with stones.
It also could well be that men created these producing sound instruments by pure chance and this is a more credible fact.
It is impossible to know considering the time gone by.
In any case it is unlikely that these primitive men understood the 7 notes.
We can produce sound even without the 7 notes by playing seashells or different things.

On the other there is a lot of history about Shiva and the 7 notes.  


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