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Originally Posted by sedoniaraqs
Because it is their spiritual belief system. Their "religion", if you will. Believing this gives purpose to their lives. They don't want to contemplate a world without belly dancing goddesses. From it they derive inner personal strength, and only through it do they manage to muster ethical behavior and common empathy for their fellow human beings. Irrational? Lacking proof? In direct conflict with numerous lines of scientific evidence? Why, yes.
I also find irrational, unproven belief systems a source of endless curiosity.
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You got it right. Folks need to make sense of their world and if the goddess theory is their bag, go for it boys and girls but like many I get fed up with the constant claims to ownership of bellydance made by the sisterhood.
For some of us it's got an awful lot to do with Egyptian, Turkish , Lebanese or ......Californian
culture and not a lot to do with the mists of time.
I am sure women always got up and did a sexy hip/ belly based dance to either have fun, keep fit or drive the lads looney but I prefer to look at Cairo and San Fran's near past for the roots of my dancing.