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Most of the religious feasts or festivals are called dances, as they are accompanied with dancing. This is 26 - MARGINALIA always circular, i.e. the dancers always move round in a circle, having the centre of the circle a the left hand. Here it may be pleasing to consider the resemblance between Indian & Jewish festivals - The word itself which is usually employed to designate festivals, vis? symbols/unclear? ^ tu? Exod. 23:17. Lev. 23:38. Num. 29:39. Deut. 12?:18 14?:26 16:11-17 26:11. if its original signification be consulted, is an intimation that dancing was practiced on such occasions. John's Archeology. P. 447? symbols/unclear/same as above Denotes irregularity of motion or form. - The word id applied to the celebration of religious feasts, whether in honor of the true God; or of idols, as, Kings 12:32. and in the reduplicate form it plainly denotes dancing round in circles. Sam.? 30:16. - It is moreover certain that religious dances were used in the worship of the true God; (Judg. 21:19, 21, 2? Sam. 6:14?, 16. 1 Chron. 15:29.) and it is well honored? how eminent a part they made in the religious rites of the an unt? heathen. The anunt idolaters (probably) by there dances intended to attribute the progressive rotations of the earth & planets in their circular orbits to the independent power of their God the heavens; and the performance of this service by believers was disregarded to reclaim those motions to jehovah , as the original author of them. Parkhurst under the word symbols/unclear/same as above As the religious dances of the jews were circular, so especially are those of the Indians. Their dances, at religious festivals, all their? ball play dances