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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, and war dances are all performed in the same manner. The dance consists sometimes of merely a slow step, sometimes quick, and sometimes accompanied with fierce & wild gestures as in the ball play & war dances.