Sentence examples for religious dances from inspiring English sources

They've even discovered a percussion instrument, a "sistrus" used for religious dances to worship the Egyptian goddess Hathor.

There were also a war leader, a person in charge of religious dances, and a shaman, or medicine man or woman.

Figari used his artistry as a means of rescuing Uruguay's rich black heritage with evocative portraits of Candomblé religious dances in colonial patios and on the pampa.

Except for the Indian-influenced candomblé de caboclo, a ritual of the Candomblé sect (a variant of the Vodou cult), the religious dances of Brazil contain only African and Portuguese elements.

In societies far older than ours, dance was integrated into the daily fabric of people's lives: in religious dances, war dances, fertility dances, child-birthing dancers, even dances that incorporated the rituals of trading.

During those travels, Curtis met members of some 80 tribes and made avid notes on everything from religious dances to eyewitness accounts of the Battle of the Little Bighorn.

Like bharatanatyam, kathakali is a religious dance.

Elsewhere, religious dance societies were based on age grades, as in the male warrior societies of the northern Plains.

The ring shout (a religious dance usually accompanied by the singing of spirituals and clapped rhythms) is of African ancestry.

The religious dance masks of many societies, including those used in ancient Tibet and in Buddhist sects of Japan, may to some extent also belong to this class.

The most significant dances are the religious dance-dramas taken over from such medieval religious productions as moros y cristianos ("Moors and Christians") and the matachina dances both for trained male societies.