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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Pagan and Christian Creeds by Edward Carpenter: one warrior to praise another for his dancing! But when
one realizes what is really meant--namely the fitness of
the loved comrade to lead in religious and magical rituals
--then indeed the compliment takes on a new complexion.
Religious dances, in dedication to a god, have of course been
honored in every country. Muller, in the work just
cited,[1] describes a lively dance called the hyporchema
which, accompanied by songs, was used in the worship
of Apollo. "In this, besides the chorus of singers who
usually danced around THE BLAZING ALTAR, several persons
were appointed to accompany the action of the poem
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