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