# Dan C. Baciu 2025: In the Beginning Was Music! Computational Analysis of the Hymn to Nikkal and the Rig Veda Reveals Musical Connection Between Distant Bronze Age Societies

> Dan C. Baciu, 2025. 3 records on Mysteries Department cite it. Preprints.org, June 2025, not peer reviewed. Takes Hagel's duration reading of the…

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# In the Beginning Was Music! Computational Analysis of the Hymn to Nikkal and the Rig Veda Reveals Musical Connection Between Distant Bronze Age Societies

Dan C. Baciu, 2025.

**Hurrian songs of Ugarit** Articledoi: **[10.20944/preprints202506.1669.v1](https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202506.1669.v1)** 0

## What it's used for here

Preprints.org, June 2025, not peer reviewed. Takes Hagel's duration reading of the numerals, notes that 2 and 4 outnumber 3 and 5, and compares the resulting rhythm with Rig Veda verse endings against 1,000 shuffled controls. Recorded as a recent computational attempt whose premise (a fixed rhythmic reading) is itself contested.

## Cited by on this site 3 records

[No Mesopotamian theory or instruction text records durations by numeral, and the earlier readings of the numerals as…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/hurrian-songs/evidence/EVD0DEDYNAX3GEN/no-mesopotamian-theory-or-instruction-text-records-durations)

Evidence

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[The numerals 2 and 4 occur more often than 3 and 5 in the notation, as duple rhythmic values would.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/hurrian-songs/evidence/EVD0DEDYMM9K7RT/the-numerals-2-and-4-occur-more-often-than-3-and-5-in-the)

Evidence

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[The Hurrian songs of Ugarit](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/hurrian-songs)

The mystery article

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## Cite it

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Dan C. Baciu (2025). In the Beginning Was Music! Computational Analysis of the Hymn to Nikkal and the Rig Veda Reveals Musical Connection Between Distant Bronze Age Societies. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202506.1669.v1
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