The sacred dance

INDEX

Aaron, 161
Ab, feast of, 143
Abel-meḥolah, 142
Abijah, 92
Absorbing the god, 25
Abydos, royal tombs at, 203
Achna, Kybele temenos at, 99
Air a means of lustration, 99
Altar, dance round, 91 f.
procession round, 94
Amalekites, David’s attack on the, 48
Amathus, 70
Ambarvalia, 100, 149
Ancestor-worship, 131
dancing connected with, 195
Animals, belief in descent from, 18, 78
holy, 166
imitated in dance, 18
sacred, 166
Animistic stage, 14
Aphrodite, 98
Aphrodite-Ariadne, 70
Apis festivals, 60
Apollo, 7, 63, 68, 74, 120
Apollo Karneios, 69
Apollo, Pythaean, 69
Apollonius Rhodius, 201
Apuleius, 118
Apuleius’ account of sacred dance, 61 f.
Arabi Pasha, 115
Arabs, 193
ancient, 116
cultus of the, 49, 94
wedding dance among the, 181
mourning rite among the, 202
song round well of, 89
Arāwaks, funeral dance among the, 212 f.
procession round corpse of, 201
Archigallus, 127
Ares, 63
Argonauts, 201
Ariadne, 70
Ariadne’s Dance, 27, 69, 71 f.
Aristomenes, 163
Aristophanes, Frogs quoted, 123
Aristotle, 14
Ark, 36, 54, 94
Arkteia, 68, 102
Artemis, 19, 63, 66, 102
Brauronian ceremonies of, 68
Caryatis, 67
Koruthalia, 66
worship of, 67
Artemis-Kybele, groves of, 99
Arunta of Central Australia, 169
funeral dance among the, 216
Arval Brothers, 149
Ashantees, 170
Ashdod, 47
Ashkenazic Jews, 198
Asiatic peoples, sacred dance among, 76
Asiph, 140
Asshurbanipal, inscription of, 58
Assyrian festivals, 58
procession, 58
sacred dance, 6
Athena, 19, 64, 120
Athens, 123
Atonement, day of, 143
Atrium, 208
Attic women dancing in honour of Dionysos, 123
Attis, worship of, 126, 127
Baal, 38
Marqôd, 19, 56
of dancing, 56
prophets of, 111, 113, 131 f.
“Baby Jesus”, 23
Babylonian festivals, 57
hymns, 58
Bacchanalian assemblies, 124
Bacchantes, 121, 124
Bagobos of Mindanao, 103
Bāmāh, 108
Bambaras of Senegambia, 145
Barges, procession of, 62
Basket, 60
Baskets dancing, 67
Bear dance, 68, 102
Bechuanas, marriage dance among the, 181
Bedouin Arabs, 193
dance among the, 56 f.
Benihassan, inscription on tomb at, 203
Benjamites, 142
Bēs, 60
Bēsa, 61
Bethel, 38
Bharang, 211
Bheels, marriage dance among the, 181
Blood, flowing of during dance, 213
Bodo-priest, 27, 128
Boghazkeui, rock-inscription at, 59, 109
Bond of life, 200
Bondas, funeral dance among, 213
Bones venerated, 210
Book of the Dead, the, 11
Brahman worship, 77
Brauronian ceremonies, 68, 84
Brethren of the Ploughed Fields, 149
Bridal couples, royal state of, 29
Bride and bridegroom in a state of danger, 184
Buddha, pyre of, 201
Burial rite, dancing as a, 29 f., 42
customs not an innovation, 197
tenacity of, 197
Burials, Chinese, 201
Buriats, procession round corpse of, 201
Byblos, 116
Cactus, 217
Camel, processional dance round, 28, 95
Caryae, 67
Cassowary-dances, 18
Castor and Pollux, 67
Cattle increased by sacred dance, 103
Charites, 148
Chela, 133
Child mind, the, 22
Chinese burials, 201
Chitôn, 67
Chnomhôtep, 203
Choruses of Physcoa and Hippodamia, 124
Chuppah, 177
Cicero, 78
Circle-dance of men and women, 205 f.
Circle, magic, 28, 94
Circuit round sanctuary, 94
sacrifice, 94
sevenfold, 93, 94
Circuits round a corpse, 200
Circumambulation, 199
Circumambulatory procession, 100
Circumcision festivals, dancing at, 144 f.
of Isaac, 145
City, encirclement of, 94
Clapping of hands, 7, 52
Clement of Alexandria, 125
Coelibaris hasta, 181
Coins from Tralles, 69
Conibos, funeral dances among the, 212
“Consecrated”, 94
Consecration of warriors, 161
Corinth, golden plate from grave near, 73
Corn-Mother, 103
Corneto, 207
Corybantes, 69
Crane dance, 72
Cremation in India, 201
Cretan labyrinth, 71
Cretan legend of birth of Zeus, 69
Cretan-Mycenaean creed, 120
Crete, 70
Crops made to grow by dancing, 27, 29
Cultus of ancient Arabs, 94
Custom, traditional, retained, 217
Cylinder seals, 59
Cylix of Hieron, 122
Cymbals, 7, 52
Cypresses, 148
Cyprus, 70
excavations in, 11, 98
inscriptions from, 59 f., 72 f., 98 f.
Dagon, 47
Daḥa dances, 144
Dakotahs, 21, 77, 83, 101, 165 f.
sun worship among the, 77
Dālag, 44, 46, 47, 48
Dance accompanied by cymbals, 7
by hand-drums, 7
by singing, 7
by tambourine, 121, 203
among the Greeks, 11
the Israelites, 7
the natives of New Guinea, 1 f.
the uncivilized races, 8
and music, 7
and religion, 69
applied to processions, 100
as a mourning rite among the Greeks and Romans, 207 ff.
at funeral feasts, 207
at weddings as an initiatory ceremony, 188
ecstatic, 37 ff.
encircling, 37, 183, 199, 205
funeral, 204 ff.
funeral, purposes of, 204 ff.
Hebrew terms for, 44 ff.
Hikuli, 217 f.
imitative, 14
in honour of the army of the heavens, 69
of the Egyptian gods, 61
in semi-circle, 98
limping, 87, 111
musical accompaniment to, 51 ff.
never useless, 2
of Jewish maidens, 143
of maidens in the forum, 75
on graves, 29
orgiastic, 122
processional, 36
represented on Greek pottery, 5
round a sacred object, 88 ff.
altar, 91 f.
golden calf, 90
men disguised as familiar spirits, 214
slain enemies, 206
trees, 88
wells, 88
scaring away evil spirits, 30
the dead brought back by, 30
the dead personated in, 30
Dance-spirit, the, 153
Dancers sprinkled, 217
Dances and funeral games, 207
at Egyptian funerals, 203
at festivals among the Romans, 149 ff.
in celebration of victory, 40 f., 159 ff.
in honour of superhuman powers, 54 ff.
of the dead, 205 f.
of gods, 17
of the Salii, 150
performed under trees, 148
Dancing accompanied by instrumental music, 122
as an act of devotion, 129
as an expression of will, 6
as a mourning rite among savages, 209 ff.
at celebration of Eleusinian mysteries, 124
at circumcision festivals, 144 f.
at Egyptian festivals, 146
at feasts, 140 ff.
at festivals among the Baris, 153
Hottentots, 153 f.
Kai, 152
Kayans, 151 f.
at Greek festivals, 146 ff.
at the feast of Purim, 144
connected with ancestor-worship, 195
definitions of, 5
Dervishes, 115, 130, 137
during the making of vows, 145
field of, 142
Hebrew words for, 35 ff., 197
highest development of, 9
in honour of the dead, 203 f.
in honour of the moon, 153
magical, 171
modern, 6
modes of, 5 f.
of masked men and women, 148
priests, 150
religious in origin, 129
serious for savages, 21
spirit of, 130
to ensure a fruitful marriage, 191
to the point of unconsciousness, 129
Dancing-floor in Knossos, 70
Dancing-grounds, Greek, 65
[See also Ecstatic Dance, Funeral Dance, Sacred Dance]
Davar, 49, 95
David, 36, 54, 162
Day of Atonement, 143
of Blood, 127
Dead, continued existence of the, 209
imitated in dance, 30
sacrifice for the, 213
the, brought back by dance, 30
Decemviri, 75
Deir el-Ḳala, 56
Delos, 70, 72
Delphian women dancing in honour of Dionysos, 123
Demeter, 24
dance in honour of, 90
mysteries of, 147
Departed, dance in honour of the, 198 f.
personating the, 214
spirit of, feared, 205 f.
wrath of, appeased by dance, 215
Dervishes, dancing, 115, 130, 137
Descent from animals, 18, 78
Development of ideas, 218
Devil dancers, 27, 128
Dhāt anwāt, 96
Dies Sanguinis, 127
Dinka, negro tribe in Soudan, 206
Diodorus, 124
Dionysiac ritual, 6
Dionysos, 7, 19, 21, 63, 64, 66, 120, 143, 147, 148
contact with through dance, 122
festivals, 122
orgies in honour of, 123
raving in honour of, 38
temple of, 124
under the influence of, 122
worship of, 120
Dioscuri, 19
Disguise of mourners, 205, 211
Divine indwelling, 26
Dog-dances, 18
Drum-beating, 2
Dutch New Guinea, funeral dance among inhabitants of, 212
Ecstatic dance, 32, 107 ff.
a means of mystic experiences, 116
among Greeks, 119 ff.
Israelite prophets, 109 ff.
Romans, 126
Syrians, 116 ff.
uncultured races, 128 ff.
contagious, 108
means of divine indwelling, 32
means of union with the deity, 108
not confined to early Israelite prophets, 107
outcome of strong religious emotion, 107
two forms of, 114
Ecstatic state, 27
means of inducing an, 39, 120
voice of the god during, 129
Egyptian fresco, dancing depicted on, 10
inscriptions, 5
funeral dances, 203, 204
procession, 203
temples, sacred dance depicted on doors of, 62 f.
Egyptians, mourning rite among the, 202 f.
Eleusinian mysteries, dancing at the celebration of, 124
Eleusis, 90, 124
Elagabalus, 149
Eliezer ben Hyrcanus, 143
Elijah, 113
Elis, 68
Encirclement of city, 94
Encircling dance, 199, 206
procession of gods, 96
Epithalamium, 190
E-sagila, temple of, 57
Eskimo, procession round corpse of, 201
Esquimaux, funeral dances among, 215
Eteokles, the daughters of, 148
Eternity, Feast of, 203
Etruria, sacred dance introduced from, 75
Etruscan vase, 71
Etruscans influenced by Greeks, 76
Euripides, Bacchae quoted, 124
Evil eye, 188
Evil spirits, 47, 132
combated in dance, 204 f.
in vicinity of corpses, 205
protection against, 205
scared away by dance, 30
Excavations in Cyprus, 11, 70
Exegesis, Rabbinical type of, 86
Familiar spirits, men disguised as, 214
Fātima, 211
Faunus, 150
Fear of departed spirit, 205
Feast of Eternity, 203
of Tabernacles, dancing during, 94
Feet, stamping of, 198
Festival, funeral, 203
Field of dancing, 142
Figures, semi-human, 147
Fire as a lustration, 99
Flute-playing as a mourning rite, 196
Forum, dance of maidens in the, 75
Fratres Arvales, 149
Funeral dance among Aaru archipelago natives, 218
Aborigines of N. Australia, 213
Arāwaks, 212 f.
Arunta, 216
Bondas, 213
Conibos, 212
Dutch New Guinea natives, 212
Esquimaux, 215
Gilbert islanders, 212
Indian tribes of Guiana, 212
Maoris, 212
Melanesians, 212
N. American Indians, 213
Pulu islanders, 214
Sioux, 214
Sulka, 212
Tami islanders, 213 f.
Tarahumares of Mexico, 217
Timor islanders, 215
Funeral dances collective, 199
purposes of, 204 f.
Funeral festival, 203
Funeral games cannot be separated from dances, 207
Funeral procession, scenes at, 199
Funerals at night, 207
Gallas’ dance round sacred tree, 103
Game of Troy, 69, 71, 74
Games at funerals, 207
Geranos, 72
Ghosts of the dead, 29
propitiation of, 167 ff.
Gilbert islanders, funeral dance among, 212
Gilyaks, 18
Goddesses personated, 148
Golden calf, dance round the, 90
Grave a dwelling-place, the, 208
Greek influence on the Romans, 73 f.
pottery, 66
dances represented on, 5
vases, 10
Greeks, dancing of the, 65
funeral processions among the, 207
national temperament of the, 76
Grotta del Trichinio, 207
Gymnopaediae, 68 f.
Ḥāgag, 44, 48 ff., 92
Ḥagg, 49, 51, 94, 141
Halfa, 204
Ḥalîl, 52
Hallel, 93
Haloa, 147
Hand-drums, 7
Hantu mĕnāri, 130
Harmony, 53
Harp-players, 202
Harpokrates, 61
Harvest festivals, 39 f.
dancing at, 140 ff.
Ḥatḥor, 19, 60 f.
Head-hunters in Dutch New Guinea, 171 f.
Heavenly bodies, symbolic representation of movements of, 95
Ḥebel, 92, 108
Hebrew prophets, 33
terms for dancing, 44 ff., 197
Hebrews, festivals among the, 139 ff.
religious superiority of the, 139
Heliodorus, 117
Hell-gallop, 206
Henna-dance, 187 f.
Hera, 64
Herakles, Tyrian, 117
Hermes, 148
Herodotus, 124
Herodotus’ account of Egyptian worship, 62
Hezekiah, 58
Hieron, cylix of, 122
Hikuli dance, 217 f.
Hindoo Koosh, natives of, 171
Hippodamia, Chorus of, 124
Hittite inscriptions, 10, 59 f., 109
Homer, 122
Honouring the departed by dance, 30, 203 f., 209, 211
Hosea, 136
Ḥūl, 44
Human victim, dance round to make crops grow, 103
Husain, 211
Iacchus, 124
Iamblichus, theory of, 117
Ideas, development of, 218
Identification, 25
Identity, change of, 29
Iḥwy, 60
Ilabistan, wells of, 90
Imagines, 208
Imitation, 25
Imitative magic, 3, 4, 23, 183
propensity in man, 14
Indian, ancient ritual at weddings, 186
Initiation rite, 68
Inscription on tomb at Benihassan, 203
Inscriptions, dancing depicted on, 10
Egyptian, 5
from Cyprus, 65, 98 f.
Hittite, 10
Inspiration gained by dancing, 128
Instinct of play, 7
Irish, procession round corpse, 201
Isaac, circumcision of, 145
Isidis Navigium, 62
Isis, worship of, 61
Israelite prophets, 38
Israelites and the nations of antiquity, 85
dancing, 7
religious uniqueness of, sometimes exaggerated, 31 f.
sacred dance among the, 31 ff.
stage of culture of the, 8 f.
Italian god of vegetation, 27
Jacob, 113, 118
Jahwe, 33, 36, 38, 54, 93, 94
possession by spirit of, 109
Jephthah, 141, 162
Jewish custom, post-biblical, 9
maidens, dance of, 143
Jews, Ashkenazic, 198
of post-biblical times, marriage dance among the, 181 f.
of the Caucasus, marriage dance among the, 183
Sephardic, 198
Juno Regina, 74
Kaaba, 49, 95, 115
Kailang Nāg, 133
Kamtchatka, 18
Kangaroo-dances, 18
Kayans of Sarāwak, 28, 102, 106
Ḳazir, 140
Kazwini, 90
Killing a god in animal form, 165
King’s week, 178
Kinnôr, 52
Knossos, dancing-floor in, 70
Kol tribes of Chota Nagpur, 210
Kore, 147
Korybantes, 121
Kouretes, 125
Kûkubûry, 116
Kumbâz, 180
Kybele, 121, 126, 127
Kybele-temenos, 99
Labyrinth, 27, 69 f.
Lacedaemonians, 67, 163
Laconia, 67
Lameness simulated in dance, 111 f.
Lares, 149
Latona, 68, 69
Lattuka, negro tribe in Soudan, 205 f.
Law, the, 32
Leaping high to make crops grow, 150
over threshold, 47
Leukosia, 98
Limping dance, 87
at sunrise, 113
of Syrian origin, 114
step, 38, 51
Lucian, 96, 147
on dancing, 64
Lupercalia, 101, 149 f.
Luperci, 101
Lustration by air, 99
by fire, 99
Lycosura, 147
Lycurgus, the son of, 201
Madagascar, ancient natives of, 170
Madonna and Child, 23
Maenads, 11, 121 ff., 125
Magic and religion, 41
circle, 28, 94
to keep in angry spirits, 206
dance, 160, 171
imitative, 3, 23, 28, 183
sympathetic, 24, 28
vegetation, 149
Magna Mater, 126
Maidens’ chorus, 66
Makarakâ, negro tribe in Soudan, 206
Malayans, wedding dance among the, 186
Malbûs, 116
Mana, conception of, 3, 17
Mandan Indians, dancing among the, 189
Maoris, funeral dance among the, 212
war dance among the, 130
Maquarri dance, 212
Marduk, 57
Marqôd, Baal, 81
Marriage by capture, 180
fruitful, by means of dance, 1, 191
procession, 178, 186
rite, 28
state, dangers on entering, 28 f.
Mars, 149
Masked men and women, dancing, 148
Masks, 151 f., 208
May day, 47
May-pole, 103, 172
Mazzôth, 140
Medicine women, 130
Melanesians of British New Guinea, funeral dance among, 212
Mephibosheth, 111
Messenians, 67
Mexican Indians, beliefs of, 84
Michal, 54
Mindanao, 103
Minerva, 150
Minotaur, 71 f.
Miriam, 161
Mizpah, 141
Moon-worshippers, 153
Mopsus, 201
Mormodellick, 79
Morning Star, worship of, 95
Moroccans, wedding rite among the, 184, 186, 190
Mosaic legislation, 34
Mother and son, 125
Mourners disguised, 205
Mourning rite, dancing as a, why not mentioned in O.T., 194 f.
Mouth-pieces of the deity, 129
Movement, 14
Muharram festival, 211
Music and dance, 7
Musical accompaniment to dancing, 51 ff.
Muzzayîn, 144 f.
Mycenae, 99
Myrtle-boughs, 182
Mystae, 123
Mysteries of Demeter, 147
Mystery, 14, 17
Naioth, 108
Nature-magic, 120
Nebboot, 204
Nēbel, 52
Nĕgrān, date-palm at, worshipped annually, 97
New Guinea, belief of natives of, 1 f.
Nilus, 89, 95
Nobiles, Roman, funeral procession of, 208
North American Indians, dancing among the, 129
Noṣairis, festival of St Barbe among the, 97
Oak, dance round sacred, 103
Objects of dance coalesce, 20 f.
Oceania, aborigines of, 129
Old Testament, dancing spoken of in, 8 f.
Olympian dance, 98
Onkelos, Targum of, 141
Orgiastic dance, 122
dance of priests, 126 f.
frenzy, 112
Oriental influence on the Romans, 74
Origin of sacred dance, 13 ff.
Original object of wedding dances, 185
Orkēsis Iōnikē, 68
Orphic mysteries, 125
Osiris, king deified as, 146
Palatine hill, running round, 150
Palestine, peasants of, 145
Pan, 63, 124, 150
Pan’s-pipe, 52
Panathenaia, 64
Panopeus, 122
Parnassos, 66, 123
Pāsaḥ, 44, 50 f.
Pasâḥu, 50
Patroclus, 201
Pausanias quoted, 67, 69, 122, 123, 124, 163
Pektides, 117
Peniel, 113, 118
Perambulation, ritual, 95
Persephone, 24, 147
Persian custom of leaping over threshold, 47
Personating the dead, 30, 214
Personation, 25, 148
Philochorus, 147
Philosophy, savage, 218
Phrygia, goddess of, 121
Physcoa, chorus of, 124
Pigs, sacrifice of, 102
Pindar, Pythian Ode quoted, 124
Pine-cone, 121
Pisistratus, 64
Play, human instinct of, 7
Pleiades, worship of, 79
Plutarch, 143
Polynesian dancing, 20
Pompeii, mosaic at, 71
Porta Carmentalis, 74
Poseidon, month of, 147
Possession, 122, 128
by spirit of Jahwe, 109
Pottery, Greek, 68
Powers, supernatural, 3
Priests, dancing, 150
orgiastic dance of, 126
Procession, circumambulatory, among the Romans, 100
form of dance, 100
funeral, 199, 202
round altar, 94
corpse, 199
sacred, 150
Processional dance, 36, 54 ff.
a normal mode of worship, 81
round camel, 28
Prophets, band of, 108
Hebrew, 33, 38
Israelite, ecstatic dance among the, 109 ff.
of Baal, 38
Syrian, 39
the, 32
Propitiation of ghosts, 167 ff.
Ptah, 146
Pulu islanders, funeral dance among, 214
Purim, feast of, dancing at the, 144
Pyre, festival of the, 96
threefold procession round, 201
Pyrrhic Dance, 19, 64, 69
Pythaean Apollo, 69
Pythian Ode quoted, 124
Qāsim, 211
Rain charm, 157 f.
Rakâdu, 81
Raḳṣ, 6
Raḳṣa dance, 202
Ramah, 108
Raqaʿ, 198
Rāqad, 199
Raving in honour of Dionysos, 33
Raymi, 129
Reasoning of savages, 15
Religion and magic, 41
connexion of dance with, 69
Religious customs, persistency of, 31
ideas, modification of, 196
uniqueness of Israelites exaggerated, 31 f.
Rhythm, 6 f.
Rhythmic instinct, 7
Rite, original meaning of forgotten, 200
Rites, intermingling of, 217
Romans, ecstatic dance among, 126
funeral processions among, 207 f.
influenced by oriental cults, 127
national temperament of the, 76
sacred dancing among the, 73 ff.
Roro-speaking tribes of New Guinea, 168 f.
Royal state of bridal couples, 29
Royalty of bridal pair, 184
Running round newly born infants, 99
Russian Tapps, procession round corpse of, 201
Sābab, 44, 46, 92, 93
Sacred Dance a means of bringing back the dead, 214
a means of a fruitful marriage, 29
of obtaining food, 1, 4, 29, 103, 131
aiding the sun to run his course, 27
among Assyrians, 6
Bedouin Arabs, 6 f., 144
Greeks, 63 ff., 97 ff., 119 ff., 146 ff., 207 ff.
Jews of all periods, 184
Romans, 73 ff., 100 f., 119 ff., 149 ff.
Semites, 31 ff., 54 ff., 88 ff., 107 ff., 140 ff., 159 ff.
uncultured races, 77 ff., 101 ff., 128 ff., 151 ff., 167 ff., 184 ff., 209 ff.
appeasing wrath of departed, 214 f.
as a marriage rite, 1, 28 f., 41 f., 177 ff.
as a mourning and burial rite, 29 f., 42, 194 ff.
assisting warriors in battle, 28, 167 ff.
contagious, 38
departed personated in, 214
for magical purposes, 103, 148, 151
ghost of deceased driven away by, 217 f.
in honour of supernatural powers, 22, 209, 218
in the Old Testament, 8 f., 33 ff., 89, 107 ff., 140 ff.
introduced in Rome from Etruria, 75
led by Theseus, 70
many forms included under, 6, 35 f.
objects of the, 3, 19 ff.
origin of the, 13 ff.
round tree, 99
sources of information regarding the, 9 ff.
taught by animals, 18
unconsciousness brought about by the, 25
union brought about with god by the, 24, 32
Sacrifice, circuit round, 94
of pigs, 102
Sacrificial victim, 24
St Barbe, 97
St Paul, 32
Salii, the, 27, 150
Sanctuaries, limping dance performed at, 111
Sanctuary, circuit round, 94
Sarāwak, Kayans of, 28, 102
Satan dancing, 46
Saturn, 150
Satyrs, 64, 208
Saul among the prophets, 109 f.
Sed festival, 146
Self-laceration, 38
Sennacherib, 58
Sephardic Jews, 198, 199 f.
burial of, 200
Serpent worship, 133
Seven circuits round a corpse, 200
Sevenfold circuit, 93 f.
Shabuôth, 140
Shaman, 128
Shiloh, 142
“Showing off”, 22 f.
Sicinnis, 64
Sileni, 208
Siloam, 157
Sinaitic Peninsula, Arabs of the, 95
Singers and dancers at funerals, 202
Sioux, funeral dances among, 214
Indians, 102
Sisera, 163
Sistrum, 52, 60
“Sixteen Women,” the, 124
Skēnē, 147
Speech, laudatory at burials, 198
Spirit of dancing, possessed by, 130
of the departed kept in grave, 216
indwelling, 16
Spirits of fertility represented by masked men, 152
Stamping of feet, 198
Statius, 201
Statue of the departed, 203
Step, limping, 38, 51
Stringed instruments, 52
Sukkah, reference to, 94
Sukkôth, 140
Sulka, of New Britain, funeral dance among, 212
Sun aided to run its course by dancing, 27
Sungal, 134
Supernatural powers, 3
imitated in dance, 15
sense of the, 17
the, 13
Sword dance, 28, 180, 186, 188
Symmachus, 126
Sympathetic magic, 24, 28
Syrian goddess, 118
desert, Bedouin Arabs of the, 81
peasants, weddings among the, 178 ff.
prophets, 39
Syrians, ecstatic dance among, 116 ff.
Tabari, ancient Arabian historian, 97
Tabernacles, feast of, 94, 141, 143, 157 f.
Taboo, 104, 174 f.
Talmudic period, 198
Tambourine accompanying dance, 121, 203
Tami islanders, funeral dance among, 213 f.
Ṭaphaz, 142
Tarahumares, funeral dance among, 217
Targum, 46
Targum of Onkelos, 141
Tarphon, Rabbi, 182
Ṭawâf, 95
Temple worship, 58
Terence quoted, 12
Thargelia, 148
The Golden Ass quoted, 118 f.
Theocritus, 190
Theseus leading the sacred dance, 70
Thesmophoria, 148
Thompson Indians of British Columbia, 170
Threefold procession round pyre, 201
Threshing-floor, 147, 179
Threshold, 47
Thyia, first priestess of Dionysos, 121
Thyiads, 21, 121 ff.
Thyrsus, 121, 143
Timagani Indians, 102
Timor, inhabitants of, 167 f.
island, inhabitants of, funeral dances among, 215
Tinnevelly, 132
Titans, 125
Tithēnidia, 66
Tom-tom, 7, 52
Tôph, 52, 55
Torch dance, 143
Torres Straits, 214
Tragliatella, 71
Tree, dance round to make crops grow, 103
for hanging things on, 96
Tree-spirits, 106
Trees, dance round, 88, 99
dancing performed under, 148
Troy, game of, 69, 71, 74
Tshi-speaking peoples of the Gold Coast, 128
ʿUgâb, 52
Unconsciousness brought about by dance, 25
dancing to the point of, 129
Uniformity in mythology, 2
in ritual, 2
Union brought about by dance, 24
Vedda, 128
Vedic worship, 77
Vegetation magic, 120, 149
Victory dances, 40 f.
Vine-leaves, 121
Vintage festivals, 39 f.
dancing at, 140 ff.
Visions due to over-wrought state, 122
Vows, dancing during performance of making, 145
Walpurgis night, 47
Wand, curved, used during funeral dance, 203
Warriors dancing, 71
Wazara, 184
Wedding ceremony, dancing at, 41 f.
Wedding-feast, 177
Well of Fair Dances, 90
Well, song of the, 89
Wells, dance round, 88
Wen-Amon, 116
Wends’ dance round sacred oak, 103
Women under the influence of Dionysos, 122
Women, Bacchanalian assemblies of, 124
Xanthias, 123
Xulophoria, 144
Yuki tribes of California, 170 f.
Zēlaʿ, 114
Zeus, 19, 64, 69
Ziklag, 48

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