The sacred dance - W. O. E. Oesterley

[392] ERE, IV. 481 a.

[393] ERE, IV. 416 b.

[394] See on this the present writer’s Immortality and the Unseen World, p. 180.

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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