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Originally Posted by Aniseteph
Anything about prehistoric roots, temples, goddesses, priestesses, sacred mystic rites etc etc.  |
Haha, I agree
Brea, I think there can be some truth in this stuff, this means, I don't find it improbable that there had existed an ancient form of belly dance in the Mediterranean and ancient Middle Eastern cultures. It can be that this ancient kind of belly dance was indeed a sacred dance, dedicated to some Goddesses or whatever. But the question for me is: what does it give me today? And what does it have to do with the modern forms of belly dance? My opinion is, that it doesn't give me anything to know that there existed an ancient belly dance and also that we will never know what differences and similarities could exist between the ancient and the modern belly dance, since there didn't exist videos and DVDs in ancient times
For me everything one can tell about ancient dances (not only belly dance) is pure speculation. Interesting but unrealistic.