Originally posted by griphon2
Mode within a mode? That is extended logic. What exists is being ignored! This has already been done! What else can be said?

Ok, I know what you're thinking, even though it's hard to understand what you mean by this post. The difference between the two modes is the number of steps between notes. So all the modes can have the same notes and still be different because they begin and end on DIFFERENT notes. Observe:

A-B-C-D-E-F-G-A

whole step--half--whole--whole--half--whole--whole

C-D-E-F-G-A-B-C

whole step--whole--half--whole--whole--whole--half

Different, see?
That's what a mode is, a pattern of steps.