Danza sagrada en el mundo antiguo

Contenido:CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORYI. THE IMPORTANCE OF THE SACRED DANCEII. THE MEANING OF THE SACRED DANCEIII. THE REASON FOR USING THE OLD TESTAMENT AS THE STARTING-POINT IN THE INVESTIGATIONIV. THE SOURCES OF INFORMATION:(1) Inscriptions(2) ‘Pottery, etc.'(3) Ancient Literature(4) Modern LiteratureCHAPTER II THE ORIGIN AND PURPOSES OF THE SACRED DANCEI. THE ORIGIN OF THE SACRED DANCEII. THE PURPOSES OF THE SACRED DANCECHAPTER III THE SACRED DANCE AMONG THE ISRAELITESI. THE SACRED DANCE AMONG THE ISRAELITESII. TYPES OF THE SACRED DANCE AMONG THE ISRAELITES:(1) The sacred processional dance(2) The encircling of a sacred object(3) The ecstatic dance(4) Sacred dances at Vintage and Harvest Festivals(5) Dances in celebration of victory(6) The sacred dance as a Circumcision rite(7) The sacred dance as a Marriage rite(8) The sacred dance as a Burial Mourning rite’CHAPTER IV THE OLD TESTAMENT TERMS FOR ‘DANCING’I. CONSIDERATION OF SOME HEBREW ROOTSII. THE MUSICAL ACCOMPANIMENT TO DANCING’CHAPTER V THE SACRED PROCESSIONAL DANCE, AND DANCES IN HONOUR OF SUPERNATURAL POWERS’I. THE SACRED PROCESSIONAL DANCE AMOUNG ISRAELITESII. ‘AMONG THE SYRIANS AND ARABS, AND OTHER SEMITES’III. AMONG THE HITTITESIV. AMONG THE EGYPTIANSV. AMONG THE GREEKSVI. AMONG THE ROMANSVII. AMONG ASIATIC PEOPLESVIII. AMONG UNCULTURED RACESSUMMARY AND CONSIDERATIONSCHAPTER VI THE RITUAL DANCE ROUND A SACRED OBJECTI. AMONG THE ISRAELITESII. AMONG OTHER SEMITESIII. AMONG THE GREEKSIV. AMONG THE ROMANSV. AMONG UNCULTURED RACESSUMMARY AND CONSIDERATIONSCHAPTER VII THE ECSTATIC DANCEI. AMONG THE ISRAELITESII. AMONG OTHER SEMITESIII. AMONG THE GREEKS AND ROMANSIV. AMONG UNCULTURED RACESSUMMARY AND CONSIDERATIONS’CHAPTER VIII THE SACRED DANCE AT VINTAGE, HARVEST, AND OTHER FESTIVALS ‘I. THE ISRAELITE FEASTSII. CIRCUMCISION FEASTS AMONG THE SEMITESIII. THE SACRED DANCE AT EGYPTIAN FESTIVALSIV. THE SACRED DANCE AT GREEK FESTIVALSV. THE SACRED DANCE AT ROMAN FESTIVALSVI. THE SACRED DANCE AT FESTIVALS AMONG UNCULTURED RACESSUMMARY AND CONSIDERATIONSCHAPTER IX DANCES IN CELEBRATION OF VICTORYI. AMONG THE ISRAELITESII. THE ORIGINAL PURPOSE OF THIS TYPE OF DANCE AMONG UNCULTURED RACESSUMMARY AND CONSIDERATIONSCHAPTER X THE SACRED DANCE AS A MARRIAGE RITEI. ‘AMONG THE ISRAELITES, THE ‘DANCE OF MAHAII. AMONG SOME UNCULTURED RACESIII. SOME FURTHER PURPOSES OF THIS TYPE OF DANCESUMMARY AND CONSIDERATIONSCHAPTER XI DANCING AS A MOURNING AND BURIAL RITEI. THE OLD TESTAMENT AND THIS TYPE OF DANCEII. THE RITE AMONG MEDIÆVAL AND MODERN JEWSIII. ‘THE RITE AMONG THE EGYPTIANS, ANCIENT AND MODERN’IV. THE RITE AMONG THE GREEKS AND ROMANSV. THE RITE AMONG UNCULTURED RACESSUMMARY AND CONSIDERATIONSINDEX