What is the dance of seven veils?
In popular culture, he is considered the "dance of seven veils" dance that Salome performed for his stepfather Herod, as described in the Bible in Matthew 14: 6-11 and Mark 6: 21-28. In the Bible, the dance is not named and this name first appeared in the press in the stage of notes on Oscar Wilde's 1891 Play Salome . It is not a traditional dance in the Middle East, but more likely to the western invention submerged in oriental misconceptions, although some believe that the association has an ancient Eastern religion. In the modern Western world, dance is often associated with striptease, although some abdominal dancers perform more artistic interpretations. It is the culmination of Richard Strauss' Salome , based on Wilde's game. Over the years, women playing Salome have performed unforgettable and often scandalous versions of Ttan. The dancer begins the dance of seven veils and removes them one by one when dancing, often, but not always, ends the dance naked or almost the onek.
Some argued that the dance of seven veils had its roots in the ancient myth of the Sumerian goddess Inan or the Babylonian goddess Ishtar. In this myth, the goddess descends into the underworld and has to go through seven goals on their way, each of which has to give up jewelry or the symbol of its royal rank. Number seven was important for ancient times, because it is the number of heavenly bodies visible to the naked eye without a telescope: the sun, the moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Saturn and Jupiter. Therefore, there are seven main gods in many ancient religions, and in many myths and classification systems there are number seven.
Modern mystics see the dance and story of the descent of the pineapple as a metaphor for enlightenment, the release of the "veils" of the illusion on the way to the deeper spirituality of self -realization. In fact, the idea of "seven veils of mystical experience" is preceded by Wilde's game. These "seven veils" are okay dreams, reason, passion, bliss, courage, compassion and knowledge.
In his novel Skinny Legs and All , Tom Robbins offers a similar but updated interpretation of the dance of seven veils. With every veil of the dancer, another secular illusion is questioned and broken. A memorial, a dancer in Robbin's novel removes a veil that first obscures her weakness and saves the one who covers her face and head, suggesting that dance is not about titration, but about the release of secular hangs.