'The Goddess comes through'
Dancers who embody "the Goddess" at this page of QuickTime clips. (Work-safe, so far as I can tell. Downloads 10-15 MB)
When we say the Goddess is dancing, we are not simply talking about archetypical feminine qualities appearing in the human dancers. Nor are we referring to the women themselves as "goddesses." What we feel in the Goddess' dances is a very distinct, sublime Presence.
Do I want to get into the thealogical questions here? Not now. But I suspect that there was one goddess (or aspect, if you will) manifesting in particular, and Sappho knew her name.
When we say the Goddess is dancing, we are not simply talking about archetypical feminine qualities appearing in the human dancers. Nor are we referring to the women themselves as "goddesses." What we feel in the Goddess' dances is a very distinct, sublime Presence.
Do I want to get into the thealogical questions here? Not now. But I suspect that there was one goddess (or aspect, if you will) manifesting in particular, and Sappho knew her name.
posted by Chas S. Clifton at 1:20 PM Permalink
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"Do I want to get into the thealogical questions here? Not now. But I suspect that there was one goddess (or aspect, if you will) manifesting in particular, and Sappho knew her name."
-- sorta looks that way to me. I always loved that poem, btw. One of my private daydreams is that someday a complete text of Sappho's poems will be discovered. There weren't very many to begin with.
That's my dream too. The complete works of Sappho found buried in a clay jar somewhere ....
One only but wishes. Perhaps Sergey Brin has already bought them and is planning to toss them up on the Web. Behind an ad-wall, of course...
axayim,
Gwyneth
Looking at those dances again, there was either an element of being "transported" there, or those are some of the most unselfconscious people I've ever seen.
You have to see this:
Men shake their bellies - men embodying tigers and lions. With their bellies.
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