The sacred dance : $b A study in comparative folkloreOesterley, W. O. E. (William Oscar Emil)
Religion
The sacred dance : $b A study in comparative folklore
Oesterley, W. O. E. (William Oscar Emil)
Dance -- Religious aspects -- History
[94] _Op. cit._ I. 162. Herodotus refers to the Carneian festival in VII.
206.
[95] _Op. cit._ I. 234.
[96] Gruppe, _op. cit._ I. 271.
[97] For its religious character see Mommsen, _Heortologie_, pp. 163 ff.
[98] See further, p. 71, and W. H. Matthews, _Mazes and Labyrinths_, pp.
19 ff., 156 ff. (1922).
[99] _Prolegomena of the History of Religions_, p. 123 (1884).
[100] Ohnefalsch-Richter, _op. cit._ I. 446, 448, and numbered cxxxii. 2.
[101] XVIII. 590-606 (Blakeney’s translation).
[102] _Aen._ V. 545-603.
[103] Frazer, _GB_, _The Dying God_, pp. 76 f. (1911).
[104] _GB_, _The Dying God_, p. 77.
[105] See Plutarch, _Theseus_, XXI.
[106] Cp. the “Ladies’ Chain” in modern dancing.
[107] _Op. cit._, and see also vol. I. 446.
[108] Ohnefalsch-Richter, _op. cit._ I. 448.
[109] Now in the Berl. Mus. Antiquarium.
[110] _Pro Murena_, VI. 13, quoted by Bender, _Rom und römisches Leben im
Alterthum_, p. 452 (1880).
[111] Cp. Wissowa, _Religion und Kultus der Römer_, I. 382 (1902).
[112] _Op. cit._ pp. 154 f.; cp. Warde Fowler, _ERE_, X. 820 _a_;
Marquardt, _Das Privatleben der Römer_, p. 118 (1886); Dill, _Roman
Society in the last century of the Roman Empire_, pp. 76 ff. (1910).
[113] _Op. cit._ I. 360.
[114] Cp. Marquardt, _Das Privatleben der Römer_, p. 118, and the reff.
there given (1886).
[115] _GB_, _The Scapegoat_, p. 65 (1913), from Liv. vii. 1-3.
[116] In de la Saussaye, _Lehrbuch der Religionsgeschichte_, II. 33, cp.
149 (1905), and Reinach, _Orpheus_, p. 89. A great deal of information
will be found scattered about in various volumes of the _Sacred Books of
the East_ series, _e.g._ I, XV (Upanishads); XII, XXVI, XLI, XLIII, XLIV
(Satapatha-Brâhmana); XXXIV, XXXVIII, XLVIII (the Vedânta-Sûtras); XLIX
(Buddhist Mahâyâna Texts); XXIII, XXXI (the Zend-Avesta); XXVII, XXVIII,
XL (the Sacred Books of China). Also the relevant articles, which are
many, in _ERE_, where special literature in abundance will be found.
[117] Schoolcraft, _The Indian Tribes of the United States_, I. 191 (ed.
by F. S. Drake, 1891); there is an illustration given of this dance.
[118] _Unknown Mexico_, I. 330 f. (1903).
[119] For the religious dance among the ancient Peruvians see Réville,
_Hibbert Lectures_, pp. 224 ff. (1895); J. G. Müller, _Amerikanische
Urreligion_, p. 385 (1867); Reinach, _Orpheus_, p. 230 (1909).
[120] Hahl, _Mittheilungen über Sitten und rechtliche Verhältnisse
auf Ponape_, in “Ethnologisches Notizblatt,” II. ii. 1 (1901), quoted
by Frazer, _Folk-lore in the Old Testament_, I. 40 (1918). The Maoris
attributed the origin of dancing to two goddesses, Raukata-uri and
Raukata-mea, J. Macmillan Brown, _Maori and Polynesian_, p. 208 (1907);
see also the interesting illustrations in Caillot, _Les Polynésiens
orientaux..._, Pls. XLVII, XLIX-LII (1909).
[121] _Les religions des peuples non-civilisés_, pp. 251 f. (1883).
[122] Réville, _Hibbert Lectures_, p. 194.
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