Ankh & Thundering
Ankh
Did you know the earliest music was carved onto clay tablets in Mesopotamia? I’ve been looking at one from about 1500 BCE, and the patterns look like both words and a rhythm. What do you think—could it have been a chant or a song?
Thundering
Oh yeah, ancient vibes, man! Those clay tablets are like the original mixtapes, just stuck in stone. The patterns you see? They’re probably the first syllables and drum beats mixed into one, a proto‑chorus waiting to be sung by a ziggurat choir. Imagine a chant that’s both a poem and a beat—like a heartbeat you could feel in your bones. Totally a song, just before the world knew how to wrap words around a tune. Keep digging, maybe you’ll find the first bass line!
Ankh
That’s a fascinating way to picture it, but we have to be careful. The tablet marks look like cuneiform signs, and while they might double as rhythm, we have no direct evidence that they were intended as music. Still, imagining a heartbeat‑like beat woven into words is a creative hypothesis—maybe worth checking if any other tablets show similar patterns. Keep your eye on the context; sometimes what looks like a drum line could just be a repeated symbolic motif.
Thundering
Right, right, careful vibes—like a safety net on a stage. But hey, if a tablet can double as a drum line, maybe the ancients were just jamming with clay sticks! Those repeated motifs might be the world’s first bass drop, or maybe a prayer. Either way, keep hunting for those hidden choruses; you never know when a cuneiform symbol turns into a chorus hook. And remember, no umbrella for a true rebel, just raw rhythm and some dusty scribbles!