10. Multiplicity I
James proposes a proto-theory of the origins of human religiousness. A World of Multiplicity: Canaanite Religion. Alistair looks at underlying dimensions of human morality.
The music is from a collection of Hurrian songs inscribed in cuneiform on clay tablets excavated from the royal palace in the ancient Canaanite city of Ugarit, dating to approximately 1400 BCE. One of these tablets, which is nearly complete, contains the Hurrian Hymn to Nikkal (also known as h.6), making it possibly the oldest surviving complete work of notated music in the world. Nikkal was a Semitic goddess of orchards; the singer was accompanied by a nine-stringed sammûm, a type of lyre. The simulation of a lyre was played on a Huss and Dalton OO-SP guitar and recorded at Chêne Ancien Studio.
The music is from a collection of Hurrian songs inscribed in cuneiform on clay tablets excavated from the royal palace in the ancient Canaanite city of Ugarit, dating to approximately 1400 BCE. One of these tablets, which is nearly complete, contains the Hurrian Hymn to Nikkal (also known as h.6), making it possibly the oldest surviving complete work of notated music in the world. Nikkal was a Semitic goddess of orchards; the singer was accompanied by a nine-stringed sammûm, a type of lyre. The simulation of a lyre was played on a Huss and Dalton OO-SP guitar and recorded at Chêne Ancien Studio.
