Chapter XI: Dancing as a Mourning and Burial Rite (3)

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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