Minuet

• To dream of seeing the minuet danced, signifies a pleasant existence with congenial companions.
• To dance it yourself, good fortune and domestic joys are foretold.

Source: 10 000 Dream Interpretations, by Gustavus Hindman Miller

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Polka [165]

• To dream of dancing the polka, denotes pleasant occupations.

[165] See also: Meaning of Dreams about Dancing.     Source: 10 000 Dream Interpretations, by Gustavus Hindman Miller   (See also: Dream Archives, Meaning of Dreams, Dream Interpretation, Dream Dictionary, Dream Dictionary - Polka, Meaning of Dreams about Polka, Dream Interpretation Polka)

Almeh (Arab.). Dancing girls; the same as the Indian nautchies, the temple and public dancers.

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Vasanta-rasa

the anniversary of the rasa dance Krishna held in the spring.

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Seva-kunja

the site of the rasa dance in Vrindavana.

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rasa (-lila)

Krishna’s divine dance with the gopis, the grand celebration of their conjugal love.

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Mudra:

Physical gestures, positions or postures (including dance movements) used primarily as associational and/or trance inducing devices.

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HEATHEN - One who dances on the Heath. Another word for Pagan.

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shamanic practice, often aided by drugs, drumming and dance,
king of mentally assuming animal form

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Apsara - the heavenly wives of the Gandharvas; exceptionally beautiful dancing girls in the court of Indra.

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Kirtana:

Kirtana. Song and dance of worshippers of Vishnu or his incarnations.

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rasa:

The elixir in alchemy. "Liquid". "mercury". Sense of taste. dance of krishna and the gopis.

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Rasa (Sanskrit) [from the verbal root ras musical sound]

The mystery-dance performed by Krishna and the gopis, in which Krishna remains in the center while the shepherdesses revolve about him. This dance is still celebrated in a yearly festival, especially in Rajastan. It represents, astronomically, the circling of the planets around the sun, as did other circle dances, e.g., the dance of the Amazons around the priapic image, the dance of the daughters of Shiloah (Judges 21), and the dance of David around the ark (IU 2:45).

In rasa we see the same general connection which the Pythagoreans referred to when they spoke of the music of the spheres, or again that a celestial body in following its path does so to the accompaniment of natural sound or music which the motion evokes. The rasa dance signifies stately, quiet, but continuous movement of the bodies of those participating around another in the center who represents the sun, while those dancing around him in various orbits or circles represent the planets.

Such dances were representative of the life in nature moving in circular or spiral ways to the accompaniment of sound or music, the roots of such movements being found in the akasa, sound itself being the distinguishing characteristic of akasa according to ancient correspondences.

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Nautch (Anglo-Indian) [from Hindustani nach a dance for Sanskrit the verbal root nat to dance, perform dramatically]

A dance with pantomimic gestures performed in India by professional dancers, called by Europeans nautch girls, the professional dancers attached to the temples of India.

One of the original ideas symbolized in archaic pantomimic dancing was the representation of the planets revolving around the sun. The Vishnu-Purana recounts that the dance was created by Krishna when, during his boyhood among the gopas or herds-people of Mathura, he taught it to the gopis (herdswomen). Its base-figure was the circling of many around one who remained in the center, and the Purana touches upon a mystery in the statement that Krishna, although dancing with each one in the circle, yet all the time remained in the center.

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Rasa (Sanskrit). The mystery-dance performed by Krishna and his Gopis, the shepherdesses, represented in a yearly festival to this day, especially in Rajastan. Astronomically it is Krishna - the Sun - around whom circle the planets and the signs of the Zodiac symbolised by the Gopis. The same as the "circle-dance" of the Amazons around the priapic image, and the dance of the daughters of Shiloh (Judges xxi.), and that of King David around the ark. (See Isis Unveiled, II., pp. 45, 331 and 332.)

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NONPHYSICAL TOOLS: the three most generally used are: music, dance and gestures. These raise power, alter consciousness and serve to unite Self, with Diety.

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Angelology:

Medieval science of studying angels. Question: how many angels can dance on the head of a photon? Answer: give the physicists who are working on quantizing consciousness another decade or two.

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FEIS: Once meaning a gathering for Brehon judgemnet, but today means a dance contest of a Celtic games competition. A feis was often a reason for holding a fair.

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CAROLE - dance circle in which participant hold hands and concentrate on linking with all humanity and raising human consciousness. (NAD)

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Kaliya

A many-headed serpent who poisoned a lake within the Yamuna. Krishna subdued the serpent by dancing on his hoods and then banished him from Vraja.

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Gopishvara Mahadeva

The linga Deity of Lord Siva in Vrindavana who protects the site of Krishna’s rasa dance with the gopis.

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Vidyadhara - a class of supernatural beings who possess magical powers and knowledge of various heavenly arts and sciences, especially singing and dancing.

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