The different ways of dividing the octave are related to mythological stories. The tonic is viewed as the king or emperor in ancient Greek music, the classical music of India and China. The fourth and the fifth are sometimes related to as the Asvan twins in Indian mythology or to ministers in the government hierarchy. The other notes in the scale are the subjects of the king. Notes outside the scale are enemies especially the one built a tritone from the tonic that, in the western tradition is viewed as the diabolical in music. The chord built on the seventh scale degree is also considered an “untouchable.” All of these ideas are a misapplication of the concept of, “as above, so below.” The ancients wanted to base their societies or at least SEEM to be basing their MUSIC on the natural order of the universe/ heaven. But making God a king and the angels ministers is sheer! projection because of the difficulty we have conceiving of a deity. Suggesting that since there is a caste system in heaven, there should be one on earth is self-serving of the upper classes. Repressive cultural control is not related to morality and is not derived from the authority of a venerable tradition. The upper classes represent their program as fair and themselves and their music theory as moral and proper. They must rationalize their program as closer to immutable values and prevent outsiders from understanding it and of acquiring self-mastery. They use all of the above to propogate unfair classism.
There's a hero in mythology who cuts up the terrible dragon that goes around the octave. The dragon has the scales of a snake from the earth and the wings of a bird from the sky. It represents the unity of opposites and is represented as an urobourus. It’s the most important “God/hero” that cuts it up, releasing the waters of heaven that have been sucked up and distributes the snake’s body as food for the devoted. Its a terrible dragon because of the fifths. This is from a book called The Myth of Invariance. If you create a scale using perfect fifth intervals without tempering them, you arrive at pythagora's comma. The octaves don't line up and processes like the procession of the equinoxes going further and further out of tune. It’s definitely the SPIRAL of fifths and not the circle of fifths.
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